03320cam a2200373 4500 530164796 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781555979805 1555979807 B01N9EB4LP Amazon 9fe415db-eb98-42b9-8417-14c3c5596cca OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3057078 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Machado, Carmen Maria. Her Body and Other Parties [Libby] : Stories. Graywolf Press, 2017. Science Fiction / General. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2097kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2097kB. Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. Short Stories. HTML:<p><b>Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction</b><br /> <br /> <b>"[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange."—Roxane Gay</b></p> <p><b>"In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire. I couldn't put it down."—Karen Russell</b></p><br /> <p>In <i>Her Body and Other Parties</i>, 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.</p> <p>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 <i>Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit</i>, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.</p> <p>Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, <i>Her Body and Other Parties</i> swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.</p>. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award Finalist. National Book Critics Circle Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9fe415db-eb98-42b9-8417-14c3c5596cca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9fe415db-eb98-42b9-8417-14c3c5596cca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9fe415db-eb98-42b9-8417-14c3c5596cca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)