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Winner of the O. Henry
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An antic imagination pervades
the work of Susan Fromberg Schaeffer. Whether she is writing a novel or a
poem or a story, she has an uncanny ability to stop time at the single moment
of hilarity or tragedy--the instant that illuminates and defines the character's
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Her first collection of short
fiction reveals this writer's astonishing range. From the man who can love
only an animal to one who fears his own feelings about his daughter, from
the hero who complains at the end of his life that "something should have
happened," to the heroine in a cocoon, to the terrified woman writing her
novel (in the 1977 O. Henry Award story, "The Exact Nature of Plot")--all
of Schaeffer's characters discover themselves in circumstances, improbable
or ordinary, that require them suddenly to look at their world in a new
way. |
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