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Like Karen Russell, George Saunders, Jose Luis Borges and Isabel Allende, Janet Hamill''s writing lures readers willingly into a labyrinth of surprise and suspense, with humor lurking just on the other side of pathos; a tear just moments away from bright, well-deserved laughter. The seventeen crisp stories included in Tales from the Eternal Cafe offer a plethora of fascinating characters and scenarios: a brief memoir from Baudelaire''s publisher; a letter from a writer who knows he is going mad; an exasperated Italian film director unable to inspire Europe''s most famous actor during the shooting of a brothel scene. The book includes an introduction by the author''s lifelong friend, singer-songwriter-poet-author Patti Smith, whose book Just Kids, received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2010. Tales from the Eternal Cafe, author Janet Hamill''s debut short story collection, offers a thrilling, unwinding trail of tales that excite and mystify; drift then deliver a powerful punch that readers will devour. Like Karen Russell, George Saunders, Jose Luis Borges and Isabel Allende, Janet Hamill''s writing lures readers willingly into a labyrinth of surprise and suspense, with humor lurking just on the other side of pathos; a tear just moments away from bright, well-deserved laughter. The seventeen crisp stories included in Tales from the Eternal Cafe offer a plethora of fascinating characters and scenarios: a brief memoir from Baudelaire''s publisher; a letter from a writer who knows he is going mad; an exasperated Italian film director unable to inspire Europe''s most famous actor during the shooting of a brothel scene. The book includes an introduction by the author''s lifelong friend, singer-songwriter-poet-author Patti Smith, whose book Just Kids, received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2010.
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