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.
發表於2024-05-12
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Erotic nightmares. When she looks into the mirror, time and space fades and she sees her horrific, alien, suffering self, and this nakedness gave thrills. This book takes over shower thoughts for weeks, mystifying even one’s own reality— faded female bodies flowing out in droplets from the shower, girls-with-bells-for-eyes peeking from the ceiling.
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評分Erotic nightmares. When she looks into the mirror, time and space fades and she sees her horrific, alien, suffering self, and this nakedness gave thrills. This book takes over shower thoughts for weeks, mystifying even one’s own reality— faded female bodies flowing out in droplets from the shower, girls-with-bells-for-eyes peeking from the ceiling.
Her Body and Other Parties 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載