Word: link
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...Kelly Link...
...first story in Magic for Beginners concerns an enchanted handbag. Open it one way, and you find a village that was hidden inside it long ago for safekeeping. Open it another way, and you're pulled into a dark land guarded by a dog with no skin. Link's stories are kind of like that handbag. At first blush they look like charming yarns about divorce and TV shows, but they're haunted by dark spirits and dark emotions--loss, anger and despair. They play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro...
...Magic for Beginners By Kelly Link 273 pages
...first story in Magic for Beginners concerns an enchanted handbag. Open it one way and you find a village that was hidden inside it long ago for safekeeping. Open it another way and you're pulled into a dark land guarded by a dog with no skin. Link's stories are kind of like that handbag. At first blush they look like charming yarns about divorce and TV shows. But they're haunted by dark spirits, and dark emotions, loss and anger and despair. They play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro...
...polemical, the best of these quiet, well-observed songs do something far tougher-create a mood. Lua, about seduction and loneliness, feels like a shameful walk home on a winter morning, while Landlocked Blues starts as a breakup song and meanders its way into an antiwar ballad. The link, at least by Oberst's reckoning, is futility, and whether you agree with his politics or not, his emotions are believable. Best Tracks: Lua, Landlocked Blues, Road...