The Resource Her body and other parties : stories, Carmen Maria Machado
Her body and other parties : stories, Carmen Maria Machado
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- Summary
- 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.
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 245 pages
- Contents
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- The husband stitch
- Inventory
- Mothers
- Especially heinous
- Real women have bodies
- Eight bites
- The resident
- Difficult at parties
- Isbn
- 9781555977887
- Label
- Her body and other parties : stories
- Title
- Her body and other parties
- Title remainder
- stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Carmen Maria Machado
- Title variation
- Her body & other parties
- Subject
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- Women -- Identity
- Women -- Identity -- Fiction
- FICTION / Science Fiction
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction
- trueSexuality
- Short stories
- Short stories
- trueWomen
- Women
- Women -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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.
- Award
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- Indies' Choice Book Awards, Adult Debut, 2018.
- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, 2018
- Shirley Jackson Awards, Single-Author Collection, 2017.
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- Cataloging source
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- Machado, Carmen Maria
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3613.A2725243
- LC item number
- H47 2017
- Literary form
- short stories
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- Machado, Carmen Maria
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- Women
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- Her body and other parties : stories, Carmen Maria Machado
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- Contents
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- The husband stitch
- Inventory
- Mothers
- Especially heinous
- Real women have bodies
- Eight bites
- The resident
- Difficult at parties
- Control code
- 1882069
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 245 pages
- Isbn
- 9781555977887
- Lccn
- 2017930115
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781555977887
- (OCoLC)965738096
- Label
- Her body and other parties : stories, Carmen Maria Machado
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- Contents
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- The husband stitch
- Inventory
- Mothers
- Especially heinous
- Real women have bodies
- Eight bites
- The resident
- Difficult at parties
- Control code
- 1882069
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 245 pages
- Isbn
- 9781555977887
- Lccn
- 2017930115
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781555977887
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Subject
- Women -- Identity
- Women -- Identity -- Fiction
- FICTION / Science Fiction
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction
- trueSexuality
- Short stories
- Short stories
- trueWomen
- Women
- Women -- Fiction
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- trueLambda Literary Awards: Lesbian Fiction
- trueIndies' Choice Book Awards: Adult Debut Fiction
- trueShort Stories: Horror
- trueShirley Jackson Awards: Single-Author Collection
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Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
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