Large Animals in Everyday Life [Paperback]

I like animals and I like men begins the hopelessly-in-love narrator of The Round Bar, who follows her married country singer to Nashville in her own version of a down-and-out song. In The Oysters, Pat Boone notHer prose is at times as moving and mean as broken bottles. . . . Brenner is a writer of large . . . talent.Starred Review. Intoxicatingly original.Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, these stories are quirky takes on contemporary life in which animals, not always large, lurk around the edges.