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Informationen zum Autor Judy Budnitz was born in 1973 and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Harvard in 1995 and received an MFA in creative writing from New York University in 1998. She is the author of a collection of stories, ‘Flying Leap’.‘If I Told You Once’, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Klappentext A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world-and imagination-knows no boundaries. "I don't know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from," said "Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, "Flying Leap, "but I'm happy to have her. Tremendous . . . funny, dark, adventurous, slanted, and enchanted." These twelve astonishingly inventive stories-which take us into the heart of America and around the globe, from suburban backyards and swimming pools to war-torn streets and fallout shelters-are riveting, seductive, and impossible to forget. In "Flush," a mammogram prompts a dark comedy of blurred identities between a mother and her two adult daughters. In "Elephant and Boy," a surrogate mother-and-son bond, tinged with the erotic, is formed when a philanthropist attempts to "civilize" a young elephant handler. "Nadia" sounds the depths of a young woman's complex feelings toward a friend's mail-order bride from Eastern Europe. "Preparedness"-an Orwellian tale in Technicolor-imagines rapture in the wake of imminent apocalypse. And in "Where We Come From," a pregnant woman's many failed attempts to cross the border do not lessen her resolve to give birth on U.S. soil to a "nice big American baby." Magical, poignant, often transcendent, these are virtuoso modern fables that mine our stores of hidden urges, misunderstandings, and blind passions, inviting us on a voyage through places and times at once deeply familiar and wondrously strange. "From the Hardcover edition.
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Praise for Nice Big American Baby:
'An impressive talent harnessed to a wild imagination' The Times
Praise for Flying Leap:
'Truly impeccable and gripping pieces of prose ... There is not a story here that does not contain an unusual or striking image.' The Times
'Judy Budnitz's collection of extraordinarily eccentric short stories makes the heart soar' Elle
'With a range as daring and pleasingly precocious as the title, Budnitz's stories flirt with fairy tale, absurdism, comedy and science fiction ... A series of hearteningly ambitious leaps of imagination: like fairy tales, the best of these stories have an immediacy which will endure.' Guardian
Praise for If I Told You Once:
'A truly remarkable book by a truly talented young writer ... somewhere between Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves and the most captivating fairy tales and folklore of old.' The Times
'A powerful, evocative tale, shot through with a winning black humour and prose of simplicity and strength. It challenges its own assertion that 'there are some stories that defy telling'.' Observer
'Stunningly evocative. Budnitz astutely explores the fantasies that are spun in the individual mind about who we are and what we are, and how sometimes these illusions are as necessary to our existence as the air we breathe.' Time Out
