THE STORY: LINDA HER, is set in a summercottage where Carol, an insomniac, lies awake pondering her dissatisfaction with her boring husband (who talks endlessly of a lost love whom he hasn’t seen since kindergarten) and their bratty daughter. In fact she is thoroughly disenchanted with the whole domestic scene—whereas her unmarried friend, Janet, couldn’t think of anything nicer. So Carol does the right thing, and tiptoes off to a new life, leaving her sleeping husband and child to the ministrations of the easily persuaded Janet.
“Kondoleon is a writer of considerable comic sophistication whose style blends Noel Coward into the Theater of the Absurd.” —New York Daily News.
“Mr. Kondoleon’s writing blossoms like one of those Japanese paper flowers you drop into a glass of water” —Village Voice.
“Mr. Kondoleon’s glittery language and absurdist world view are as arresting as always.” —The New York Times.
“It was delightful and disturbing. And wicked.” —New York Post.
Included in the collection
Linda Her and The Fairy Garden.
