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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories by Aimee Bender Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-385-49216-2 / 0385492162 ISBN-13: 978-0-385-49216-4 / 9780385492164 In conventional fiction, war heroes return home minus an arm or a leg--or, to take Hemingway's worst-case scenario, the family jewels. In Aimee Bender's deeply unconventional collection, however, an even more suggestive body part goes AWOL: "Steve returned from the war without his lips." The ar |