Her Body and Other Parties
Read by
Amy Landon
Release:
10/03/2017
Release:
10/03/2017
Release:
10/03/2017
Release:
10/03/2017
Runtime:
8h 42m
Runtime:
8h 42m
Runtime:
8h 42m
Quantity:
“With supernatural flair, an engaging pop culture awareness…and an intimate, unrelenting style that grabs you by the throat and sinks its perfectly-polished nails in, Machado explores ‘femaleness’ in a way that makes women who evaporate or telepathically hear the thoughts of porn stars feel eerily, impossibly, like long-lost friends.”
Harper’s Bazaar
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Fiction
A Paris Review Selection
An Insider.com Pick of the Best Horror Audiobooks
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.
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.
Release:
2017-10-03
2017-10-03
2017-10-03
2017-10-03
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
8h 42m
8h 42m
8h 42m
8h 42m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
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0.55 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781681686899
9781665143592
9781665143585
9781681686882
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