An early work from PENFaulkner Award winner and Man Booker finalist Karen Joy Fowler reissued and beautifully repackaged for new fans and oldFirst published in to high praise and now reissued with the addition of a prefatory essay Black Glass showcases the extraordinary talents of this prizewinning author In fifteen gemlike tales Fowler lets her wit and vision roam freely turning accepted norms inside out and fairy tales upside downmdashpushing us to reconsider our unquestioned verities and proving once again that she is among our most subversive writersSo then Here is Carry Nation loose again breaking up discos smashing topless bars radicalizing women as she preaches clean living to men more intent on babes and booze And here is Mrs Gulliver her patience with her long-voyaging Lemuel worn thin Money is short and the kids canrsquot even remember what their dad looks like And what of Tonto the ever-faithful companion turning forty without so much as a birthday phone call from that masked manIt is a book full of great themes and terrific storiesmdashbut it is the way in which Fowler tells the tale develops plot and character plays withtimechance and reality that makes these pieces so original.
