My body to you / Elizabeth Searle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Searle, Elizabeth, 1962-

Series:

Iowa short fiction award.

The Iowa short fiction award

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the thirteen stories of My Body to You, thirteen women or girls pilot their own bodies through a shifting universe of lovers old and young, parents devoted and destructive, sisters of different sexes, children and adults living in the mysterious world of autism. All these characters share keen powers of observations and a heightened sensuality. In a wild variety of settings, they struggle to control-or dare to abandon themselves to-their intensely private passions.A woman in love with a gay man she calls Sister Kin attempts to escape the bonds of her own body. An eightee

Contents:

Contents; My Body toYou; News; Round Objects; Alice Egner; Virgins; What to Do in an Emergency; Gone; Losing Weight; Tell Me about It; First Most Beautiful Woman in the World; Not Herself; White Eggplant; Number 8

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-58729-214-9

OCLC:

44965622