FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 1999
Copyright © 1998 by Aimee Bender
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1998.
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The following stories appeared previously and are reprinted by permission of the author: “The Rememberer” in the Missouri Review (Fall 1997); “Call My Name” in the North American Review (Spring 1998); “What You Left in the Ditch” in The Antioch Review (Fall 1997); “Quiet Please” in GQ (May 1998); “Skinless” (under the title “Erasing”) in the Colorado Review (Spring 1996); “Fugue” in Absolute Disaster/Santa Monica Review (Spring 1997); “Fell This Girl” in Faultline (Fall 1997); “The Healer” in Story (Winter 1998); “Loser” in Granta (Winter 1998); “Legacy” in Cream City Review (Spring 1997); “Dreaming in Polish” in Threepenny Review (Spring 1995); “The Ring” in the Massachusetts Review (Fall 1997).
The Library of Congress has cataloged the
hardcover edition of this work as follows:
Bender, Aimee.
The girl in the flammable skirt: stories / by Aimee
Bender.— 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. United States—Social life and customs—20th
century—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3552.E538447G57 1998
813′.54—dc21 97-44485
eISBN: 978-0-307-80446-4
Author photograph © Jerry Bauer
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