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The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories by Slater, Judith, 1951-; Dybek, Stuart, 1942- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories about?

Judith Slater's debut collection, The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories , was selected by Stuart Dybek as the 1998 Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories introduces a writer who approaches the world at a surprisingly oblique angle. Judith Slater writes in a prose dance, dramatizing the lives of ordinary people who wonder what they can do to bring more passion into their lives, or at least less loneliness. The characters in these stories are a diverse bunch-a floral clerk with aspirations of being a ballet dancer, a photographer volunteering to take the pictures at his ex-girlfriends wedding, a father playing the role of reluctant chaperon at his daughter's school dance-but all of them are alert to the moments of possibility, transcendence, and sometimes even magic that exist just under the surface of ordinary life. Slater is unafraid to employ the surreal or absurd in the title story, a woman creates a perfect baby in her mind; in "Phil's Third Eye," a chance encounter at a Laundromat ends in a bizarre battle of wills; in "Our New Life," a woman finds that her former therapist has decided to make the same drastic change in her own life

Author

Slater, Judith, 1951-; Dybek, Stuart, 1942-

Publisher

Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781889330341

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities