Stacey Levine, Author . Clearcut $12.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-9723234-6-8
Should Frances Johnson leave her hometown of Munson, Fla. to search for chicken-beak oil, the missing ingredient for Dr. Palmer's secret balm? Or should she marry Mark Carol, the new doctor in town, though he hasn't proposed and there's...
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Stacey Levine, Author Sun & Moon $11.95 (150p) ISBN 978-1-55713-124-9
The 18 stories in this debut collection range from the disquieting to the bizarre to the terrifying. One stands out for having all these qualities. A woman discovers a ``flesh-colored hump'' on her shoulder that cannot be removed. What is...
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Stacey Levine, Author MacAdam/Cage Publishing $13 (187p) ISBN 978-1-59692-310-2
Levine's new collection (after 1992's My Horse and Other Stories) of 27 quirky short stories constantly challenges readers' notions of reality. Many of her isolated characters live in bizarre, dysfunctional families; in ""Uppsala,""...
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Stacey Levine, Author Sun and Moon Press $11.95 (170p) ISBN 978-1-55713-288-8
With the dreamlike pace of Alice in Wonderland, the darkly comic tones of a Kafka novel and a landscape reminiscent of 1984, the latest installment in Sun & Moon's New American Fiction Series chronicles the nightmarish journey of Dra-, an...
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Stacey Levine, Dzanc/Starcherone (Consortium, dist.), $20 (228p) ISBN 978-0-9842133-4-4
Whimsical, obtuse, and maybe too content to revel in the absurd, these tales by Levine (My Horse and Other Stories) often focus on tortured relationships. "Uppsala" puts readers on notice with its first line ("We come from a bad family and we are...
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