Letters from Home Author:Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Cadigan, Pat Murphy Eighteen 'tales of the unexpected" from three award-winning American authors (6 from each author): some frightening, some humorous, all startlingly original. Introduction by Sarah Lefanu. — In Pat Cadigan's 'The Pond", a mother is terrified that her five-year-old daughter will be drownded, as was her cousin when they were ch... more »ildren. But it is not her daughter who will die ...
Karen Joy Fowler writes of the shifting nature of relationships, between father and daughter in 'Lieserl', between Tonto and the Lone Ranger in 'The Faithful Companion at Forty', between women friends in 'Duplicity'.
Pat Murphy shows an abused wife's sweet revenge in 'His Vegetable Wife' and sex as the cure for father-obsession in 'Dead Men on TV'.
These stories are collected here for the first time. Satirical or serious, they show the workings of myth and magic in modern life.
CONTENTS:
Pat Cadigan -- After the Days of Dead-Eye 'Dee; The Pond; In the Shop; Johnny Come Home; The Coming of the Doll; In the Dark;
Karen Joy Fowler -- Letters From Home; Lily Red; Contention; The Faithful Companion at Forty; Duplicity; Lieserl;
Pat Murphy -- His Vegetable Wife; On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away; Dead Men on TV; Prescience; Clay Devils; In the Abode of the Snows; « less