Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
de Machado, Carmen Maria
- Usado
- Aceptable
- First
- Estado
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 155597788X
- ISBN 13
- 9781555977887
- Librería
-
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2 copias disponibles en esta librería
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Sinopsis
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 naively 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 (from publisher).
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- BooksRun (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 155597788X-7-1-13
- Título
- Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
- Autor
- Machado, Carmen Maria
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Acceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 2
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Trade paperback
- ISBN 10
- 155597788X
- ISBN 13
- 9781555977887
- Editorial
- Graywolf Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Minneapolis
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2017
Términos de venta
BooksRun
Sobre el vendedor
BooksRun
Sobre BooksRun
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...