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Her Body And Other Parties

Machado, Carmen Maria
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd (Serpent’s Tail)
Published: January 3, 2019
ISBN: 9781781259535
256 pages

£8.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018
‘Brilliantly inventive and blazingly smart’ Garth Greenwell
‘Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable’ Roxane Gay
‘A wild thing … covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi’ New York Times

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 husband’s 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 store’s dresses. One woman’s 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.

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