Her body and other parties : stories
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017].
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Book
ISBN
9781555977887, 155597788X
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Montville Township Library - Adult Fiction
FIC MACHADO
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FIC MACHADO
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Montville Township Library - Adult Fiction | FIC MACHADO | Available |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION MACHADO | Available |
Bernardsville Public Library - Adult Fiction - Short Stories | Fic Machado, Carmen Maria | Available |
Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Fiction | FIC MACHADO | Available |
Chester Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION MACHADO | Available |
Jefferson Township Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION MAC | Available |
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017].
Language
English
ISBN
9781555977887, 155597788X
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Description
Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
Description
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 naïvely 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.,--Back cover.
Awards
National Book Award Finalist, 2017.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Machado, C. M., & Machado, C. M. (2017). Her body and other parties: stories . Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Machado, Carmen Maria and Carmen Maria. Machado. 2017. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories. Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Machado, Carmen Maria and Carmen Maria. Machado. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories Graywolf Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Machado, Carmen Maria,, and Carmen Maria Machado. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories Graywolf Press, 2017.
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