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Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee

Bobcat and Other Stories

by Rebecca Lee

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  • Jun 2013, 256 pages
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At turns witty, heartbreaking, and fiercely intelligent, Bobcat and Other Stories establishes Rebecca Lee as one of our most gifted and original short story writers.

Using a range of landscapes and countries, Lee creates full worlds, so that each story reads like a short novel. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi, finding herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's shadowy past. A dinner party becomes the occasion for the dissolution of more than one marriage. A woman is hired to find a marriage match for the one true soulmate she's ever found.

In all, Rebecca Lee traverses the terrain of infidelity, obligation, sacrifice, jealousy, and finally, optimism. She creates characters so wonderfully flawed, so driven by their desire, so compelled to make sense of their human condition, that it's impossible not to feel for them when their fragile beliefs of romantic love, domestic bliss, or academic seclusion fail to provide them with the sort of force field they'd hoped for.

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"Starred Review. This fresh, provocative collection, peerless in its vehement elucidation of contemporary foibles, is not to be missed." - Publishers Weekly

"The power in these stories often lies in the puzzlement, for readers as well as characters." - Kirkus

"[An] arresting and distinctive short story collection ... Lee's gorgeously crafted, scintillating stories are imaginative and incisive, funny and profound." - Booklist

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Rebecca Lee

Rebecca Lee is professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and the author of The City Is a Rising Tide. Her fiction has been read on NPR's Selected Shorts, and her stories have been published in the Atlantic Monthly and Zoetrope. "Fialto," which appears in this collection, was the winner of the National Magazine Award for fiction.

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