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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Her body and other parties
    sub title: stories
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Machado, Carmen Maria
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 245 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: 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 womans' 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.
  table of contents: The husband stitch -- Inventory -- Mothers -- Especially heinous -- Real women have bodies -- Eight bites -- The resident -- Difficult at parties.
  note: Carmen Maria Machado.
  subject:
    topic: Women
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Women
    topic: Identity
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Man-woman relationships
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Science Fiction / General
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Science Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  classification: PS3613.A2725243 H47 2017
  classification: 813/.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Husband stitch
    name:
      name part: Machado, Carmen Maria.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Inventory
    name:
      name part: Machado, Carmen Maria.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mothers
    name:
      name part: Machado, Carmen Maria.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Especially henious
    name:
      name part: Machado, Carmen Maria.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Real women have bodies
    name:
      name part: Machado, Carmen Maria.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Eight bites
    name:
      name part: Machado, Carmen Maria.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Resident
    name:
      name part: Machado, Carmen Maria.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Difficult at parties
    name:
      name part: Machado, Carmen Maria.
  identifier: 9781555977887
  identifier: 155597788X
  identifier: 2017930115
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 161209
    record change date: 20180214140316.0
    record identifier: in00003984002