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.
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关于female body的八个故事。喜欢mothers, eight bites, the resident!inventory也不错。Especially heinous 没读下去对不住。花样挺多,整体还是很好读!喜欢这种细微敏感到有些madwoman的环境描写带来的心理体验,氛围好过故事性。
评分我读着读着就走神了
评分关于female body的八个故事。喜欢mothers, eight bites, the resident!inventory也不错。Especially heinous 没读下去对不住。花样挺多,整体还是很好读!喜欢这种细微敏感到有些madwoman的环境描写带来的心理体验,氛围好过故事性。
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评分文字很有灵气,尤其the husband stitches, eight bites 和the resident,句子用词很抓人,节奏气氛也营造得得心应手。不过总觉得文字表象下的立意处理得不够成熟,后劲不足,读完想说"蛤??"描写lesbian的部分让我咋舌。especially heinous 实在没看下去。最后两篇里的人物让我怀疑可能是作者本人的性格投射。
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