The Baum Plan for Financial Independence
and Other Stories
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Stories intersecting imaginatively with the worlds and characters of Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Includes Kessel's modern classic story sequence about life on the moon.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This nuanced mostly reprint collection, the first in a decade from Nebula winner Kessel (Good News from Outer Space), plays on the theme of a hapless, down-on-his-luck man thrown into extraordinary circumstances. \x93The Juniper Tree,\x94 the Tiptree-winning \x93Stories for Men,\x94 \x93Sunlight or Rock\x94 and \x93Under the Lunchbox Tree,\x94 all tied to Kessel's lunar colony sequence, explore the limits placed on a man's life in a beautiful, woman-dominated city on the barren moon. In \x93Powerless,\x94 the only story original to the volume, a hapless inventor finally perfects a strange new power generator, destroying his relationships along the way. Paying homage to the classics, \x93Every Angel Is Terrifying\x94 serves as a sequel to Flannery O'Connor's \x93A Good Man Is Hard to Find,\x94 while in \x93Pride and Prometheus\x94 Mary Bennet meets Victor Frankenstein. These well-crafted stories, full of elegantly drawn characters, deliver a powerful emotional punch.
