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Magic  
for Beginners
MagiC
for Beginners
“These stories will come alive,put on zoot suits,and wrestle youto the ground.”—Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones 
KELLYLINK
 Author of 
Stranger Things Happen 
“
 A new collection by Kelly Link—and once more, for a little while, the world is worth saving.
”—Michael Chabon,
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 
 
Praise for Kelly Link’s stories:A new Fountains of Wayne album, a new Wes Anderson movie, a new short story collection byKelly Link—and once more, for a little while, the world is worth saving.Kelly Link owns the most darkly playful voice in American fiction since Donald Barthelme.She is pushing the American short story into places that it hasn’t yet been pushed, while some-how managing to maintain a powerful connection to traditional forms and storytelling values. —Michael Chabon,
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The dream-logic of 
Magic for Beginners 
is intoxicating. These stories will come alive, put on zootsuits, and wrestle you to the ground. They want you and you will be theirs.—Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones 
Kelly Link’s exquisite stories mix the aggravations and epiphanies of everyday life with thestuff that myths, dreams and nightmares are made of. Some of them are very scary, others areimmensely sad, many are funny and all of them are written in prose so awless you almost for-get how much elemental human chaos they contain.—Laura Miller,
Salon
Book of the YearKelly Link’s debut collection fuses storytelling smarts with postmodern air, Nancy Drew withPhilip K. Dick. . . . A great pop coup, part tabloid headlines, part Joycean “Ithaca.”— 
The Village Voice 
(Favorite Books of 
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)My favorite fantasy writer.—Alan Cheuse, NPR
 All Things Considered 
Her stories have the vibrancy, the buzzing resonance and the oddly insistent quality of dreams.—Andrew O’Hehir,
New York Times Book Review
Her rare and beautiful strangeness provides the real rapture.—Daniel Mendelsohn,
New York Magazine Stranger Things Happen
is a tremendously appealing book, and lovers of short ction should fallover themselves getting out the door to nd a copy.—Gregory Feeley,
Washington Post Book World 
Link’s stories defy explanation, or at least, brief summary, instead working on the planebetween dream and cognitive dissonance. They are true to themselves: witty, beautiful, funny,and startling.— 
Rain Taxi 
Sly and charming, tart and wise.—Michael Berry,
San Francisco Chronicle 
Quirky and exuberantly imagined . . . the best shed a warm, weird light on their worlds, illumi-nating fresh perspectives and fantastic possibilities.— 
Publishers Weekly
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