The Three Button Trick: Selected Stories

The Three Button Trick: Selected Stories by Nicola Barker


ISBN
9780007147984
Published
Released
01 / 09 / 2003
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Dimensions
130 x 197mm

The best short stories from possibly England's finest young female comic writer.

A 16-year-old girl in 'Layla's Nose Job' is burdened with a grotesque nose. But plastic surgery only serves to demonstrate that her strangeness isn't just skin-deep. The discovery turns her ingeniously violent.

In 'Inside Information', Martha, a professional shoplifter, becomes pregnant and attempts to turn her pregnancy to criminal advantage, only to find herself harassed by her foetus, which not only can talk but proves to have grisly plans of its own.

It's impossible, many of these stories argue, for outsiders to escape their alienation. In three related pieces ('Blisters', 'Braces' and 'Mr Lippy') featuring Wesley, a charming but damaged young man, attempts at normality are grimly, inevitably defeated.

In 'The Three Button Trick', one of Barker's most naturalistic, a middle-aged woman, who's been abandoned by her husband, discovers, thanks to the ministrations of several odd acquaintances, how little she needs him and how wayward and liberating true eroticism is.
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