Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (English) Paperback Book

Description: Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable. - Roxane Gay - Demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Shortlisted for the National Book Award Fiction Prize 2017Shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2018In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.A wife refuses her husbands entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a stores dresses. One womans surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest. A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.A writer of rare daring ... theres a ragged glory to the stories formal experimentation and erotic fearlessness, and the gusto with which they reinvent horror, SF and fairytale tropes. - GuardianA love letter to an obstinate genre that wont be gentrified. Its a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi, and borrowing from science fiction, queer theory and horror ... - New York Times Author Biography Carmen Maria Machado is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Guernica, Electric Literature, The Paris Review, AGNI, NPR, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, VICE, and elsewhere.She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Michener-Copernicus Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the CINTAS Foundation, the Speculative Literature Foundation, the University of Iowa and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Philadelphia with her partner. Review Deliciously weird and dark and erotic and queer and smart and full of desire, and profoundly original, this is about the alienation of being a woman in a way youve never read before * The Pool *A writer of rare daring ... theres a ragged glory to [the stories] formal experimentation and erotic fearlessness, and the gusto with which they reinvent horror, SF and fairytale tropes. -- Justine Jordan * Guardian *Her Body and Other Parties is a love letter to an obstinate genre that wont be gentrified. Its a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi, and borrowing from science fiction, queer theory and horror... Not since Karen Russells "St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves," in 2006, has a debut collection of short stories from a relatively unknown author garnered such attention, or deserved it more. -- Parul Sehgal * New York Times *Brilliant and unsettling ... Machado ranks alongside Shirley Jackson and Margaret Atwood, and she brings all her (there should be a womans word to replace "mastery") formidable skills to bear in this tale of the rent fabric of womens lives ... Machados narrators are articulate and thoughtful, with vivid internal lives. But shes sharp enough at capturing the messiness of ordinary human behaviour to distinguish one character from the next, keeping the stories distinct and marking each with flares of stark beauty. Machado has rare gifts, disciplined by years of writing short stories for magazines, and her literary fearlessness has already been recognised in the US, where this collection was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Awards. The stories in Her Body and Other Parties, on the vulnerability and the appetites of women, their transgressions and their disappearances, have the depth of fairy tales and the grim acid rasp of the best horror fiction. You cannot wait for her to tell more of them. * Financial Times *Those of us who knew have been waiting for a Carmen Maria Machado collection for years. Her stories show us what we really love and fear. -- Alexander CheeMachados verve shines through: macabre, erotic, and never quite what they initially seem, these arent stories that are easily dismissed. -- Lucy ScholesDaring ... Machado has created a provocative blend of fabulism, feminism, magic realism and lashings of sex. * Tatler *Striking ... spellbinding ... even the most banal settings become unnerving in Machados pen, and her images linger with the reader long after the last page has been turned. Although her voice is invigoratingly fresh, Her Body and Other Parties never reads like a debut collection. Rather, it reads like a writer at the height of her powers - confident and assured, fearless and experimental ... it feels like discovering a well-kept secret you immediately want to share with everyone you know. -- Kaite Welsh * Diva * Promotional A prize-winning, genre-bending collection of short stories which has already achieved cult status Prizes Long-listed for National Book Awards 2017 (UK) Long Description Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable. - Roxane Gay - Demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. Shortlisted for the National Book Award Fiction Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2018 In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. A wife refuses her husbands entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a stores dresses. One womans surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest. A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite. A writer of rare daring ... theres a ragged glory to the stories formal experimentation and erotic fearlessness, and the gusto with which they reinvent horror, SF and fairytale tropes. - Guardian A love letter to an obstinate genre that wont be gentrified. Its a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi, and borrowing from science fiction, queer theory and horror ... - New York Times Review Text Deliciously weird and dark and erotic and queer and smart and full of desire, and profoundly original, this is about the alienation of being a woman in a way youve never read before Promotional "Headline" A prize-winning, genre-bending collection of short stories which has already achieved cult status Details ISBN1781259534 Author Carmen Maria Machado Pages 256 Publisher Profile Books Ltd Year 2019 ISBN-10 1781259534 ISBN-13 9781781259535 Format Paperback Publication Date 2019-01-03 Imprint Serpents Tail Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.6 Language English UK Release Date 2019-01-03 AU Release Date 2019-01-03 Edition Description Main Audience General Alternative 9781781259528 NZ Release Date 2019-01-08 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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