Crazy Water: Six Fictions - Softcover

Baker, Lori

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814712843 ISBN 13: 9780814712849

Publisher: NYU Press, 1996

Synopsis

In Crazy Water: Six Fictions, Lori Baker pushes the boundaries between truth and reality with curious, tragi-comic results. The imagination is Baker's terrain, and in these stories, pleasant suburban childhoods, family drives, seaside vacations, and an academic's quest for tenure all are strangely warped, yet nonetheless still mirror a world we thought we knew. In these brief pages, boys become dogs, students hide in the molluscan places, and mothers do their best to rescind their unsatisfying children.

"I say things smugly as if I understand them, muses one of Baker's narrators. Indeed, characters and readers alike are undermined in these deft and quirky fictions. Exposing and imploding all of our expectations, Baker shows us how menacing (and funny) the apparently ordinary can be.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In Crazy Water: Six Fictions, Lori Baker pushes the boundaries between truth and reality with curious, tragi-comic results. In these brief pages, boys become dogs, students hide in molluscan places, and mothers do their best to rescind their unsatisfying children.

About the Author:

Lori Baker is a 1986 Trans Atlantic Review Award Winner who lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband, the poet Gale Nelson, and their cat Carlotta. She is currently hard at work on her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0814712843
• ISBN 13: 9780814712849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206