Black Glass: Short Fictions
Written by Karen Joy Fowler
Narrated by Emily Durante, Todd Haberkorn and Heather Wilds
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About this audiobook
A collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker-shortlisted, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
In 1999 Karen Joy Fowler won the World Fantasy Award for Black Glass, a collection of thirteen stories in which she "[Managed] to re-create both life's extraordinary and its ordinary magic" (New York Times Book Review). Now, this previously rare, out-of-print collection is being republished with a fresh package and a new prefatory meditation by the author. Featuring Fowler's characteristic imagination, sly wit, and penetrating insight, Black Glass will be a welcome treat for fans new and old.
Karen Joy Fowler
Well known in the mainstream for her New York Times bestseller, The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler is a well-respected and considerable force in SF and Fantasy as well. She is a two-time winner of the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and cofounder of the Tiptree Award, given for works dealing with the politics of sex and gender.
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Reviews for Black Glass
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Well. As the description so tactfully understates, these stories are indeed often 'puzzling.' I pretty much didn't get them. Or like them enough to want to try to. However, if you're looking for something audacious and creative, give this a shot.
I did like the heartbreaking and wise story of Gulliver's wife, as told through her letters to her usually absent husband. And it was interesting to compare that to the story of Mileva, whom Einstein similarly abandoned (according to Fowler's story - not quite exactly according to history).
I liked the following lines: Some witches were mortally beautiful. The two words go together, mind you, mortal and beautiful. Nothing is so beautiful as that which will fade."
Overall, though, there are not many of you, my friends and followers, to whom I can recommend this." - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5“I have learned to distrust words, even my own.”This collection of short stories is nothing if not odd. Some of the stories I really enjoyed, some not so much. “Black Glass,” the first story in the book, falls into the first category. It is strange, disjointed, and wonderfully creepy.There are no realities. There are too many realities. Time is meaningless. Contradictions are the norm. Sometimes this worked, sometimes it just felt as though the author couldn't decide which storyline she wanted to follow. And there were the ones that had me mentally scratching my head – huh? What does this mean? “Shimabara” was one of those. It felt like reading fiction after partaking of too much recreational drugs of the LSD bent.“Letters from Home” was pretty straightforward, and touching too. I loved “The Faithful Companion at Forty” and liked the odd “Duplicity.”In the last story, “Game Night at the Fox and Goose,” a character says, “I could take you there.”...The universe right next door. Practically walking distance.”I feel like I have been to the universe next door and back again.I was given an advance reader's copy of this book for review.