The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
  • Published: 1 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448136032
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Formats & editions
EBook
1 Nov 2012
Paperback
16 Jan 2013
Buy from…
Amazon Apple Books Google Play Kobo Booktopia eBooks.com

A fabulous collection of stories available in the UK for the first time from New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems. From a man suffering from reverse evolution to a lonely wife who waits for her husband to return from war; to a small town where one girl has a hand made of fire and another has one made of ice. These stories of men and women whose lives are shaped and sometimes twisted by the power of extraordinary desires take us to a place far beyond the imagination.
  • Published: 1 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448136032
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
Categories:
Share…

About the author

Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a New York Times bestseller, and An Invisible Sign of My Own; and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures and The Color Master. Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

Also by Aimee Bender

The Butterfly Lampshade
The Color Master
Willful Creatures
An Invisible Sign of My Own
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
See all

Praise for The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Aimee Bender’s debut short-story collection shows a writer ready to flirt with the fantastical. Largely concerned with the love lives of young metropolitans and desperate housewives, her cheerily bizarre scenarios give romance a fresh twist … Bender is a writer with a very incendiary turn of phrase.

Independent

Bender has hit the ground running with this debut

Entertainment Weekly

Fierce and true ... Fantastic!

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Hilarious, deep and a little bit dirty

Harper's Bazaar

Magical … a collection of mesmerisingly imaginative tales

Bella Magazine

Makes you grateful for the very existence of language

San Francisco Chronicle

Many of the stories in The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, begin with a premise just on the fringe of the familiar, then give it a tantalising twist ... Bender's stories are powered be voice - by pleasure of an electric simile and a restrained sauciness

New York Times Book Review

These stories are unusual, certainly and they take you inside people’s feelings. Bender gets you to see the world in very particular ways. Beautifully done; you won’t forget this.

Evening Standard