- Paperback: 79 pages
- Publisher: Lost Horse Press; Reprint edition (March 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 096686123X
- ISBN-13: 978-0966861235
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14 x 0.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 14 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,477,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A formidable writer in a class by herself . . . With her clear and penetrating gaze, Martin looks at the world and sees its horrors and contradictions, its terrifying beauty, and renders her insights through the characters of memorable women. She is a disturbing, provocative writer of risky and dangerous fiction. -- The Times-Picayune, New Orleans
Few have written so surprisingly, so convincingly, as Valerie Martin about sexual obsession. -- Margaret Atwood
Little mad obsessions encased in precise prose make stories so startling you cant let go. Martin drags the psyche out of the dark cellars and closets into daylight. What happens is unsettling and weirdly beautiful in masochistic ways, like a gingerbread house with built-in gas ovens. Emotionally painful, iconoclastic, brilliant. -- Booklist
Ms. Martins trademarks: a preoccupation with the dark underside of life, a taste for disturbing, even macabre imagery . . . excursions into an unseen realm [of] strange and magical events . . . Martin possesses a sure storytelling gift, [an] ability to transform a myriad of specific details into larger, symbolic shapes. -- New York Times
Remarkably fine work, full of insight and truth. -- Paperback Buyer, London
Rich in perceptive prose . . . rich in probing character -- Chicago Tribune
The generosity of Martins understanding opens every character to the full, astounding range of human possibility. Her revelations build mesmerizing excitement, a surprising kindness, and an unexpected sanity in the darkness. -- Katherine Dunn, The Washington Post Book World
Valerie Martin holds the readers attention with an Ancient Mariner-like grip -- Glasgow Herald
Valerie Martin is fascinating, tantalizing . . . contemporary and extraordinary. -- Boston Globe
Valerie Martin is one of those rare writers who understands the loss of traditional motives and order, but in her work never yields to the jumbled directionless excesses that tempt the modern fictioneer. Her stories are tight, bound with a tension that is as delicate as it is strong. And they are disturbing, unequivocala voice that will stay with you for a long time. -- Small Press Book Club
Few have written so surprisingly, so convincingly, as Valerie Martin about sexual obsession. -- Margaret Atwood
Little mad obsessions encased in precise prose make stories so startling you cant let go. Martin drags the psyche out of the dark cellars and closets into daylight. What happens is unsettling and weirdly beautiful in masochistic ways, like a gingerbread house with built-in gas ovens. Emotionally painful, iconoclastic, brilliant. -- Booklist
Ms. Martins trademarks: a preoccupation with the dark underside of life, a taste for disturbing, even macabre imagery . . . excursions into an unseen realm [of] strange and magical events . . . Martin possesses a sure storytelling gift, [an] ability to transform a myriad of specific details into larger, symbolic shapes. -- New York Times
Remarkably fine work, full of insight and truth. -- Paperback Buyer, London
Rich in perceptive prose . . . rich in probing character -- Chicago Tribune
The generosity of Martins understanding opens every character to the full, astounding range of human possibility. Her revelations build mesmerizing excitement, a surprising kindness, and an unexpected sanity in the darkness. -- Katherine Dunn, The Washington Post Book World
Valerie Martin holds the readers attention with an Ancient Mariner-like grip -- Glasgow Herald
Valerie Martin is fascinating, tantalizing . . . contemporary and extraordinary. -- Boston Globe
Valerie Martin is one of those rare writers who understands the loss of traditional motives and order, but in her work never yields to the jumbled directionless excesses that tempt the modern fictioneer. Her stories are tight, bound with a tension that is as delicate as it is strong. And they are disturbing, unequivocala voice that will stay with you for a long time. -- Small Press Book Club
Book Description
Lost Horse Press is proud to announce the re-publication of an impressive and haunting collection of short fiction by author Valerie Martin. Since the original publication of LOVE by Lynx House Press in 1977, Ms. Martin has written and published several novels, one of whichMary Reilly (Doubleday, 1990)has been made into a major motion picture starring Julia Roberts. Valerie Martins latest novel, Italian Fever, is being released by Knopf Publishers (New York) in July 1999.
Little mad obsessions encased in precise prose make stories so startling you cant let go. Martin drags the psyche out of the dark cellars and closets into daylight. What happens is unsettling and weirdly beautiful in masochistic ways, like a gingerbread house with built-in gas ovens. Emotionally painful, iconoclastic, brilliant.--Booklist
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Glimpses of what Martin actually does, Jan 31 2011
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I love Valerie Martin. "A Recent Martyr" is one of my favorite novels, as is "Alexandria", and "The Great Divorce". When she writes from a male protagonist view, it's simply amazing, and much more nuanced and complex than one reading will make obvious. These stories, though, feel unfinished. Like sketches of masterpiece paintings or sculptures to come, these all feel like test drives of themes she would later (and honestly DID earlier, to much greater effect) expand upon. As glad as I am to have it, I'm even happier( I know, mixed whatever) for it not to be my introduction to her art. This book is more for readers already familiar with her work. A must have, however, for those that are.
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