Description: From one of the most daring and original writers working today comes a unique and dazzling collection of short fiction Sarah Hall has been hailed as a writer whose "intelligence and ambition are thrilling to behold" (BookForum). Her work has been praised as "amazing . . . terrific and original" (Washington Post). Already acclaimed as a prizewinning nov-elist, she is now equally fted as a radically gifted short-story writer. A husband's wife transforms into a canid in "Mrs. Fox," winner of the BBC National Short Story Award. In "Case Study 2" a social worker struggles with a foster child raised in a commune. A new mother runs into an old lover in "Luxury Hour." Set in the hinterland between the mundane and surreal, and marked by a fascination with the intimacy of nature--and the nature of intimacy--these nine astonishing stories will resonate long after the final page is turned.

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