The Blue Woman and Other Stories

First US edition. 12mo. Pp [vi], 314. Quarter-bound red linen cloth, over black paper boards; lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Julie Metz.

Author's fourth book. A collection of sixteen stories that move sequentially through the ages of woman. "Flanagan here writes with an effortless-seeming expertise that recalls Alice Munro... She imagines people and situations with an intensity, an affection, and an acuteness that virtually lifts them off the page with credibility." –Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times