Her Body and Other Parties

 

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Online sinds
28 mei 2018
EAN
9781555977887
Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
248 pagina's

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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 na?vely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelg?ngers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.

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Artikelnummer
2441056
Online sinds
28 mei 2018
EAN
9781555977887

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Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
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248 pagina's

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oktober 2017