by Aimee Bender · Random H. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099558859
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«Willful Creatures» is Aimee Bender's collection of surreal short stories in paperback (224 pages, in English).
A collection of stories mixing surrealism and everyday life: a boy with keys for fingers, potato-shaped children who follow their mother, and a family of pumpkin heads who take in a newborn with an iron for a head. The stories deal with the strange and the vulnerable, with restrained emotion.
The book originally appeared in 2005 and was a nominee for the James Tiptree Jr. Award; this edition was published in 2013.
For readers of contemporary short fiction and magical realism, especially fans of literary fiction and surrealism.
Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards.
