{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Kathe Koja parses and dissects everything apprehended by the senses and mezzotints each exquisite sensation in the acid of her language. She corrodes convention as she lushly elaborates on the fears and fantasies that live in the dark -- her tales are frantic journeys into the extremes of existence.\" --Back cover."}, "lc_classifications": ["PS3561.O376 E9 1998"], "title": "Extremities", "covers": [811824], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "MIDNIGHT, and the spread and shift of Laurah's thighs beneath him."}, "first_publish_date": "1998", "key": "/works/OL1885996W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL225780A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["short stories", "fantasy", "horror", "New York Times reviewed", "Fiction, short stories (single author)"], "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/21/books/books-in-brief-fiction-311340.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:31:03.348608"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-09-17T23:47:16.494093"}}