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The Three Button Trick and Other Stories
Audacious, original, clever, poignant -- these are just a few words that describe the writing of Nicola Barker, a talented, award-winning author whose work brings to mind Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, and Maragaret Atwood. Now nineteen of her finest short stories have been complied into one brilliant, delightful readable volume.
It takes young Carrie twenty-one years and a ch
...morePaperback, 224 pages
Published
January 1st 2001
by Ecco Press
(first published 1999)
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Every once in a while a collection of short stories turns out to be completely compelling and totally engrossing. I've been teaching Salinger's Nine Stories for years, and I love them, but the time had come to try something contemporary. I had read a couple of Nicola Barker's stories in a collection, and thought she mightbe exactkly the right sort of next book for my seniors. Homerun!
These stories were incredible. I absolutely love her style! So compelling, totally drawing you in. I was never sure what to expect. She kept me on my toes the whole way through. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and want to read much more by her!
She got me again! It is IMPERATIVE that you read her novel Behindlings before reading these stories, the reveal is amazing.
A good writer and some good stories, but a few of the stories are a bit too disturbing for me. Didn't finish the book.
Meh. I'm trying.
But I admit I'm not the biggest reader of short-stories. Some in here are dynamite, but I'm running out of steam.
But I admit I'm not the biggest reader of short-stories. Some in here are dynamite, but I'm running out of steam.
Very different short stories. Each one is about 6 pages, and they all seem to have some really manipulating characters. Totally enjoyable.
I like her novels way better but as far as stories go, worth reading.
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Nicola Barker (born March 30, 1966, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England) is an English novelist and short story writer. Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings.
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