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    <![CDATA[When the Messenger is Hot: Stories]]>
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    <![CDATA[Few literary debuts (and even fewer story collections) generate the kind of heated excitement and critical adoration that have greeted WHEN THE MESSENGER IS HOT-but Elizabeth Crane is the exception to many rules. Her stories, celebrated for their hilarity, their wry and intimate tone, and their keen insight, buzz with the acute ache of first loves and first heartbreaks, death and resurrection, addiction and recovery. The women whose lives Crane so tenderly yet unflinchingly opens up to us experience love and loss in a way that is at once uniquely their own and universal.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Crane]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 30 20:51:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 07 11:51:47 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this in a train station while I was there by myself, in hopes that reading something chick-lit would help focus my nerves. The collection itself isn't so bad, but it was a little bland for me. They are mostly just general short fiction tales, with some &quot;fantasy&quot; elements, like in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23354128">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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