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Taking What I Like: Short Stories
Taking What I Like: Short Stories
Taking What I Like: Short Stories
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Linda Bamber has combined her love of fiction from the past with her propensity to shake things up, taking what she likes and gleefully sharing it with us. As entertaining and contemporary as these stories are, they also remind us what we, too, love about the classic texts she takes apart and reassembles. Bamber’s tales, like the best translations, exist independently while reminding us not to forget the plays and novels they treat. Alternating between admiration and attitude, the stories layer their plots with commentary, history, and politics, pausing as they build only to make room for the sanity and wit of the authorial voice. Emotional and genuine, these stories are also playful, inventive, and hilariously funny. From her long study of the Bard, Bamber has absorbed some of Shakespeare’s own empathy, understanding, and expressive flair. It is not too much to say that her work takes its place in the same literary sphere as the works it engages.
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Release dateJul 31, 2013
ISBN9781574232264
Taking What I Like: Short Stories
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Linda Bamber

Linda Bamber teaches in the English Department of Tufts University. She has published one collection of poetry with Black Sparrow, Metropolitan Tang, and one collection of short fiction, Taking What I Like.

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