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Author Machado, Carmen Maria, author.

Uniform Title Short stories. Selections
Title Her body and other parties : stories / Carmen Maria Machado.

Publication Info. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Fiction  F Machado    ---  DUE 04-05-24
Description 245 pages ; 21 cm.
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Contents The husband stitch -- Inventory -- Mothers -- Especially heinous -- Real women have bodies -- Eight bites -- The resident -- Difficult at parties.
Summary Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
"In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella 'Especially Heinous,' Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction." -- Publisher's description.
Subject Women -- Fiction.
Women -- Identity -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Sexual minorities -- Fiction.
FICTION / Science Fiction.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Women -- Identity. (OCoLC)fst01176807
Sexual minorities. (OCoLC)fst01202158
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726489
Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Psychological fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Added Author Machado, Carmen Maria. Husband stitch. Container of (work):
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ISBN 9781555977887 (pbk.)
155597788X (pbk.)

 
    
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