Black Glass, Karen Joy Fowler
Black Glass, Karen Joy Fowler
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Black Glass
Short Fictions

Author: Karen Joy Fowler

Narrator: Emily Durante, Todd Haberkorn, Heather Wilds

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2015

Synopsis

A collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker-shortlisted, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.In 1999 Karen Joy Fowler won the World Fantasy Award for Black Glass, a collection of thirteen stories in which she “[Managed] to re-create both life’s extraordinary and its ordinary magic” (New York Times Book Review). Now, this previously rare, out-of-print collection is being republished with a fresh package and a new prefatory meditation by the author. Featuring Fowler's characteristic imagination, sly wit, and penetrating insight, Black Glass will be a welcome treat for fans new and old.

About Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler, “one of the most accomplished and most adroit fiction writers in America” (Los Angeles Review of Books), lives in Santa Cruz, California. She is the author of six novels and three story collections, which range from contemporary and historical to literary and science fiction. Her short stories have won Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and in 2014, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, hailed by Khaled Hosseini as “a gripping, bighearted book,” won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the California Book Award and was a finalist for England’s Man Booker Prize in the first year it was opened to Americans.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill

What do you do with a book when your head clashes with your heart? How do you possibly rate it? That’s the dilemma I face with Black Glass. The collection has been dubbed “ferociously imaginative and provocative” and I absolutely agree. Karen Joy Fowler is a superb writer and her blending of magical-......more

Goodreads review by Sterlingcindysu

As the blurb above says, most of the stories are puzzling...not necessarily bad because when you figure it out you feel pretty smart. And if you don't figure it out, well, humph. Maybe you're not supposed to figure out everything in life. There has to be some mystery somewhere. (view spoiler)[For example, in the l (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Beth

I almost gave this 4 stars because a few of the stories weren't so strong. But is every novel I give 5 stars to perfect from beginning to end? Certainly not. I think the strong stories will stay with me for long time, and they are enough to make this collection excellent.......more

Goodreads review by Jack

Not recommended. While a few of the short stories boast novel premises ("novel" here meaning a welcome unfamiliarity) most are bizarre without merit, and while they could have been redeemed through a controlled lyricism or a focused narrative with clear momentum- or preferably both- they fail to be.......more

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