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Magic for Beginners

By Kelly Link

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| Hardcover | 9781931520157

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Magic for Beginners is the highly anticipated second collection of stories from Kelly Link, author of the cult favorite Stranger Things Happen. Here she unfurls an engaging, funny and magical selection of stories with riffs on marriage, cannons, convenience stores, superheros, zombies, and apocalyptContinue

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Magic for Beginners By Kelly Link

Kelly Link's second short story collection is aptly titled Magic for Beginners, for the short fiction she presents here is truly magical, with masterfully crafted stories that are as dark as they are delightful. Link's first story collection, Strange ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

Magic for Beginners

Review-a-Day Saturday, February 4th, 2006 Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link From Some Other Place A review by Alexis Smith Kelly Link is the future of American short fiction. Once you've read her stories you'll know why it is so easy to make such a s ... (read full critics)

powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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A better title would have been 'Zombies and ghosts and anxiety and zombies and unfinished stories and did I mention zombies?'. Some good stories, but drowned in -you guessed it- zombies.

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Ian Atrus said on Jun 11, 2010 | Add your feedback

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Interesting collection of short stories, written in a "slacker" style. A great cover - a hippy girl looking very much like (my favourite) Da Vinci's portrait "Lady with the Ermine". The zombie stories stand out well, The Hortlak - with a veterinary nurse who takes dogs out for very special rides in ... (continue)

Interesting collection of short stories, written in a "slacker" style. A great cover - a hippy girl looking very much like (my favourite) Da Vinci's portrait "Lady with the Ermine". The zombie stories stand out well, The Hortlak - with a veterinary nurse who takes dogs out for very special rides in her car, Some Zombie Contingency Plans, also good, and others that are good, okay, surreal and sometimes a little sinister. Sometimes, to be honest, my mind drifted off whilst reading some of them - not sure if this is in part due to the seemingly casual and slightly random style of writing. But either way, I think a wandering conversation with Kelly Link in person would make a train journey more interesting:)

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mrpeterryan said on Jan 12, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Some stories where simply a nice read, and some of the where really psychedelic trips in a wonderful exotic world, full of strange events. The collection was certainly a great one, and if you like.. "strange" stories, this is certainly a book for you!

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Ramsesoriginal said on Aug 20, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback