Get in Trouble : Stories
-- NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY -- Link has won an ardent following for her ability, with each new short story, to take readers deeply into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed fictional universe. The nine exquisite examples in this collection show her in full command of her formidable powers. In 'The Summer People,' a young girl in rural North Carolina serves as uneasy caretaker to the mysterious, never-quite-glimpsed visitors who inhabit the cottage behind her house. In 'I Can See Right Through You,' a middle-aged movie star makes a disturbing trip to the Florida swamp where his former on- and off-screen love interest is shooting a ghost-hunting reality show. In 'The New Boyfriend,' a suburban slumber party takes an unusual turn, and a teenage friendship is tested, when the spoiled birthday girl opens her big present: a life-size animated doll. Hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, -- ' -- 'San Francisco Chronicle
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- ISBN: 9780804179713
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352 pages - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : Random House Publishing Group, 2015.
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