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The melancholy of anatomy : stories / Shelley Jackson.
Van Pelt Library PS3560.A2448 M45 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Shelley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Fiction.
- Human body.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- In the fantastical spirit of Donald Barthelme and Aimee Bender, Shelley Jackson's debut story collection creates delirious worlds populated by overgrown pieces and products of the human body.
- Turning the body inside out and releasing its elements and humors, Jackson exposes the disturbing and wondrous elements of being fully human. Her marvelously strange fictions include the city of London with a monthly menstrual flow; gobs of phlegm that cement friendships and sexual relationships; and a floating fetus that becomes the new town pastor. Jackson uses these corporeal fantasies and her nimble language to probe and pry at emotions from revulsion to love to guilt, forcing her characters to confront their fears and failures.
- ISBN:
- 038572120X
- OCLC:
- 48383552
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