Lori Baker, Author New York University Press $22 (206p) ISBN 978-0-8147-1284-9
Crazy Water, winner of the 1995 Mamdouha S. Bobst Literary Award for Short Stories, is an eclectic mix of suburban fairy tales and stories of the dark side of love. In one story, a young son thinks he is a dog and only acts human after a dog trainer
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Lori Baker, Author New York University Press $25 (206p) ISBN 978-0-8147-1283-2
Crazy Water, winner of the 1995 Mamdouha S. Bobst Literary Award for Short Stories, is an eclectic mix of suburban fairy tales and stories of the dark side of love. In one story, a young son thinks he is a dog and only acts human after a dog trainer
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Lori Baker. LSU, $18.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-8071-4206-6
Though technically not loners, the women who inhabit Baker’s dark, arresting collection exhibit a conscious withdrawal from the world. In “Still life,” a woman devotes herself to “assembling an exhaustive photographic record of the head shapes of...
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Lori Baker. Penguin, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59420-536-1
Baker’s first novel (after two story collections, including Crash and Tell) conjures the strange Victorian world, both lush and barren, of 18-year-old orphan Carlotta Dell’Oro. Over six feet tall, fiery-haired, and filled with longing for the...
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