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The Color Master: Stories Audiobook
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The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories. Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and bittersweet” (Vanity Fair), and “full of provocative ideas” (The Boston Globe). In her deft hands, “relationships and mundane activities take on mythic qualities” (The Wall Street Journal). In this collection, Bender’s unique talents sparkle brilliantly in stories about people searching for connection through love, sex, and family—while navigating the often painful realities of their lives. A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard, where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children. Two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who have been ripped to shreds. In these deeply resonant stories—evocative, funny, beautiful, and sad—we see ourselves reflected as if in a funhouse mirror. Aimee Bender has once again proven herself to be among the most imaginative, exciting, and intelligent writers of our time.
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“Bender’s work has never been the stuff of manic pixiedream-girl lit. Her fairy tales are dark and wicked, not hipster-precious andfaux old-timey. Her sorcery altogether avoids the saccharine…At a time whenrealism reigns supreme over the literary landscape, one can argue it isabsolutely imperative that Aimee Bender be spotlighted for what she is: a vitalMVP of modern letters, period…In our world of flash-and-trashinsta-Internet-oddities and stranger-than-fiction social-media-bloopers, shewill have surpassed the simple feat of inventiveness to own a most dazzlinglyurgent relevancy.”
— Los Angeles Times
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“[A] dazzlingly dreamlike new story collection…Fantastical elements season the soup of Bender’s savory and sublime human sagas...So many of Bender’s sentences both settle and unsettle and deserve to be read aloud for pure pleasure.”
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“In Aimee Bender’s short stories, the value of life is measured in terms of goodness, succulence, and simplicity, all qualities that can be tasted, chewed, and ultimately swallowed by the mouth or the mind.”
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“The Color Master offers fifteen new tales that dazzle, confound, electrify, disturb, incriminate, and empathize. It is sympathetic toward cake that cannot die and hopeful about the healing arts of darkness. It is absurd. It is remarkable. It induces mental whiplash...And it’s so vividly imagined, so unusual.”
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“Full of humor, wit, and pathos, The Color Master is the work of a writer with a strong, distinctive point of view and with enough confidence to let it lead her into fresh and exciting places.”
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“Bender colors [her stories] with a tincture out of dreams. The world is everywhere present in this collection, but it gets the moon in, too.”
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“Darkly sparkling stories.”
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“Bender’s first short story collection since Willful Creatures once again opens the door to surreal otherworlds…Bender has an extraordinary gift for drawing readers into her magical, mesmerizing tales, and those looking to lose themselves in fiction will not be disappointed.”
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“Bender’s gifts as an author are prodigious, and with each story, she moves the reader in surprising, not to say startling, ways.”
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“Whether they’re telling the story of a man who pretended to be a war criminal or recounting an attempt to determine the color of the moon, the narrators of these stories give understated but evocative performances that complement Bender’s unsettling and often funny tales. The collection’s more surreal elements…are balanced by the readers’ well-paced speech and naturalistic delivery.”
— AudioFile
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A Barnes & Noble Best Book for September 2013
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One of the New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2013
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About Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender is the author of several novels and story collections. The Butterfly Lampshade was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award in 2020. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages.
About the Narrators
Erin Bennett is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress who played Carlie Roberts in the BBC radio drama Torchwood: Submission. She can be heard on several video games. Regional theater appearances include the Intiman, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, A Noise Within, Laguna Playhouse, and the Getty Villa. She trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.