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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

  • 3.6 (15 ratings) ·
  • 146 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 16 Have read

245 pages ; 21 cm

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Graywolf Press
Pages
248

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Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3613.A2725243A6, PS3613.A253 A6 2017eb, PS3613.A2725243 A6 2017

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26857070M
ISBN 10
155597788X
ISBN 13
9781555977887
LCCN
2017930115
OCLC/WorldCat
1005092634, 965738096
Wikidata
Q75955959

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Work ID
OL19636245W

Work Description

In this electric and provocative debut, Carmen Maria 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 naively assumeded had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.

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