Misfits and Other Heroes

by Suzanne Burns, Cleo Qian, Alex Brown

Book Overview

"A collection of winningly perverse pleasures. Misfits and Other Heroes is the literary equivalent of Todd Browning's classic film Freaks, which is--in this achingly dull age of worthy fictions--a wonderful and daring thing to be." --Pinckney Benedict

"This is no ordinary collection. In Misfits and Other Heroes Burns writes of disproportion, excess, reinvention, and lack as a means of magnifying outward physical irregularities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981589960
• ISBN13: 9780981589961
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

dark, beautiful stories

Seriously, a must-read. Unbelievably crafty. Shades of a dark Vonnegut from Monkey House, and definitely some Poe in there as well. This is a stark look at the beauty of broken people. And aren't we all. Oh, and if you like baking or pastries or firefighters or coastal living, you're in for a treat.