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Magic for Beginners is being released as a Free Download under Creative Commons license for the period of one year on October 2, 2008, to celebrate the publication of Kelly Link's first young adult collection, Pretty Monsters. Kelly Link and Small Beer Press would like to thank Harcourt (USA) and HarperPerennial (UK) for their willingness to particpate in making these stories available online. Due to contractual obligations, "The Faery Handbag" and "Magic for Beginners" are not included in this download.
If you'd like to get the paper version, go here http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/mfb/index.htm .
This book is governed by Creative Commons licenses that permit its unlimited noncommercial redistribution, which means that you're welcome to share them with anyone you think will want to see them. If you do something with the book you think we'd be interested in please email (info@lcrw.net) and tell us.
Thanks for reading.
Praise for Magic for Beginners:
Best of the Year Lists:
"Link's stories ... play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and J.K. Rowling, and Link finds truths there that most authors wouldn't dare touch." -- Time Magazine
"Link's writing shimmers with imagination." -- Salon
"A mind-bending blast, as funny, disturbing and poignant as anything I've read this year." -- Capitol Times
"The storyteller's mantra -- "It gets better" -- come to life and multiplied." -- Village Voice
"Link's powerful prose places this collection into a class of its own." -- Boldtype
Magic for Beginners
KELLY LINK
Illustrated by Shelley Jackson
Small Beer Press Easthampton, MA
This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or used fictitiously.
Copyright (c) 2005 by Kelly Link. All rights reserved.