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| Author | Elizabeth McKenzie |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Published | 2005 (Random House) |
| Publication place | USA |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 207 |
| ISBN | 9781400062249 |
| OCLC | 55596349 |
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The New York Times in its review of Stop That Girl described McKenzie as "an accomplished humorist and a developed stylist, and she wastes no time dazzling the reader with her clean direct language, her simple but searing use of metaphor and her unflinching eye." and although finding the writing of the last two stories "cumbersome, overwrought and overdetermined" concluded that "McKenzie still feels like an original." [1]
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