Carry Nation is on the loose again, breaking up discos, smashing
topless bars, radicalizing women as she preaches clean living to men
more intent on booze and babes. As for Mrs. Gulliver, her patience with
her long-voyaging Lemuel is wearing thin: money is short and the kids
can't even remember what their dad looks like. And what of Tonto, the
ever-faithful companion, turning forty without so much as a birthday
phone call from that masked man?
In fifteen short fictions, Karen Joy
Fowler turns accepted norms inside out and fairy tales upside down,
pushing us to reconsider all our unquestioned verities and proving once
more that she is among our most subversive writers of fiction. Filled
with imaginative virtuosity, replete with wicked insights and cunning
conceits, Black Glass delivers everything readers have come to expect
of her fiction.
Contents:
- Black Glass
- Contention
- Shimbara
- The Elizabeth Complex
- Go Back
- The Travails
- Lieserl
- Letters From Home
- Duplicity
- The Faithful Companion at Forty
- The Brew
- Lily Red
- The Black Fairy's Curse
- The View from Venus: A Case Study
- Game Night at the Fox and Goose