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Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories - Willett, Jincy, and Sedaris, David (Foreword by)
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Jincy Willett is the high priestess of dark comedy. The classic stories in this collection cut through every convention, every idea of normalcy, with empathy and fearless wit, undermining all the old ideas about the happy family, the good son, the dutiful mother. In Willett's world, perversity and tenderness walk hand in hand; there's laughter and funerals, ambivalence in the nursery, and redemption for the wicked. As David Sedaris writes in his foreword, "I'm prepared to wear a sandwich board for this book. I can't help ...

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Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories 2008, Picador USA, New York

ISBN-13: 9780312428105

Trade paperback

Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories 2002, St. Martin's Griffin, New York

ISBN-13: 9780312306182

Trade paperback

Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories 1987, St. Martin's Press

ISBN-13: 9780312006143

Hardcover