Motel Girl - Softcover

Sanders, Greg

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ISBN 10: 1597091111 ISBN 13: 9781597091114

Publisher: Red Hen Press, 2008

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Motel Girl is peopled by the colorful, the transcendent, the sane and insane--by egoists, self-deprecators, demons and drunks, by the well-meaning, and by monsters. A sampling of plots: a Muscovite is torn between the affections of her live-in bear and her boyfriend. A bureaucrat discovers the secret to immortality in a decrepit art museum. A man checks into a roadside motel to wait out a winter storm only to find himself uniquely victimized by a vengeful clerk.

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About the Author

Greg Sanders lives in New York City. His short stories have appeared in Mississippi Review, Essays & Fictions, Opium Magazine, H.O.W. Journal, Galley Beggar Press, and numerous other journals and anthologies.

Review

"Greg Sanders has hit the bullseye with Motel Girl. The stories--original, often surreal, yet thoroughly convincing--are tone-perfect, exuding a marvelous, full-bodied authority. An astonishingly fine debut."--Janet Fitch, author of Paint It Black and White Oleander "Greg Sanders's stories are ingenious and original--but more important, he's a fabulist with a heart."--David Gates, Pulitzer finalist and author of The Wonders of the Invisible World, Jernigan and Preston Falls

"Greg Sanders's prose will make you wake up and smell the latte... Sanders's debut story collection inscribes its characters with rich inner lives and appealing texture.... A good ear for dialogue and a gift for canny metaphor add glitter and gleam."--Rain Taxi Review of Books

"Sanders has a way of fixing on a point, a detail...and moving outward into the cosmos of human attributes; restlessness, a tendency to startle easily, ferocity. There is a kind of violence in every story, different kinds; and it is always surprising how the physical violence is the least disturbing kind."--The Los Angeles Times

"The stories in this New York-based writer's colourful collection capture the transience of the city and characters that inhabit it. Motel Girl is as surreal, exciting and absurd a human menagerie as the Big Apple itself. It's a strong debut from an important new writer with a glowing future."--Shortlist (England)

"The stories in Greg Sanders's debut collection...owe a debt to Franz Kafka and fabulists like Jorge Luis Borges....[They] aspire to the have your-cake-and-eat-it-too achievement of existing in both literal and symbolic realms. Many of them reach this rare ground."--The American Book Review