The Bend, The Lip, The Kid: Reallife Stories

by Jaimy Gordon

67 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1978

About the author

Jaimy Gordon's third novel, Bogeywoman was on the Los Angeles Times list of Best Books for 2000. Her second novel, She Drove Without Stopping, brought her an Academy-Institute Award for her fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gordon's short story, "A Night's Work," which shares a number of characters with Lord of Misrule, appeared in Best American Short Stories 1995. She is also the author of a novella, Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue, and the fantasy classic novel Shamp of the City-Solo. Gordon teaches at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and in the Prague Summer Program for Writers.

Reviews

[Greta · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok, not a-ok

[Glen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short but fascinatingly weird set of poems and vignettes that includes what has to be the most bizzare theory of criminology ever put forth.