Thirteen: Stories — Ursule Molinaro

Fugitive drug dealers and disincarnated spirits, vengeful lovers and rebel slaves, French executioners and runaway aristocrats populate the stories of this new collection by Ursule Molinaro. Representing Molinaro's most exceptional short fiction of the last twenty years, these mesmerizing tales take us into private worlds where the bizarre is a quietly insistent force and "extreme states of mind can be hidden from ordinary perception and from one's own consciousness...an unbalanced, violent world where the distance between people is always too wide for them to cross" (Kirkus Reviews). "Molinaro observes her characters," in the estimation of Publisher's Weekly, "with unusual acuity," presenting these thirteen stories in a brisk, straightforward, inimitable style.