Her body and other parties : stories
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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 womeńs lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.A wife refuses her husband́s 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 storés prom dresses. One womańs 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 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.
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 womeńs lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.A wife refuses her husband́s 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 storés prom dresses. One womańs 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 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.
Available copies
- 21 of 21 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| Chappaqua Library | FICTION MACHADO (Text) Fiction |
31005500409315 |
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| Croton Free Library | PB FIC/MACHADO (Text) Paperback |
31006151619418 |
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| Dobbs Ferry Public Library | MACHADO (Text) Fiction |
31007151303391 |
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| Dobbs Ferry Public Library | MACHADO (Text) Fiction |
31007151476551 |
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| Greenburgh Public Library | MACHADO (Text) Fiction |
31009154480143 |
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| Harrison Public Library | MACHADO, C. (Text) Fiction |
31010300126630 |
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| Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library | FICTION MACHADO (Text) Fiction |
31011151320348 |
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| Katonah Village Library | FICTION MACHADO (Text) Fiction |
31013151746878 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | MACHADO (Text) Fiction |
31014152505735 |
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| Mamaroneck Public Library District | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31015152358686 |
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