Her Body and Other Parties (Record no. 17520)
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| fixed length control field | 01819nam a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781555979805 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PS3613.A253 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 813.6 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Carmen Maria Machado |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Her Body and Other Parties |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Graywolf Press |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 248 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A highly anticipated debut by "one of the most ferociously gifted young writers working today" (Michelle Huneven) 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 na#65533;vely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelg#65533;ngers, 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Short Stories |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 12/24/2023 | TP MACH | 70344 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |