Dreams Of Dead Women's Handbags Author:Shena MacKay From "the best writer in the world today" (Elle) and "a master of the short story" (Daily Telegraph) comes this dazzling collection of short fiction. In story after story, each as beguiling as its title-"Electric-Blue Damsels," "Other People's Bathrobes," "Perpertual Spinach"-Shena Mackay dis... more »plays her uncanny ability to expose the menace of everyday life with humor and haunting accuracy. Her darkly comic vision, lush imagery, and astonishing original prose have won high praise from critics on both sides of the Atlantic. "American readers new to Mackay's stories," said Publisher's Weekly, "have something really special waiting for them."
"Breathtaking....Mackay's work stands out as a vigorous and spirited testimony to the power of language to transform even the most trivial experience into something rich and strange." -Boston Book Review« less