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Her body among animals : stories / Paola Ferrante.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.F4766 A6 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferrante, Paola, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Women--Violence against--Fiction.
- Women--Violence against.
- Genre:
- fairy tales.
- short stories.
- Fairy tales
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction
- Horror fiction
- Science fiction
- Short stories
- Science fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Fairy tales.
- Horror fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 260 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Book*hug Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world "among animals," where violence is intertwined with bizarre ecological disruptions. A sentient sex robot goes against her programming; a grad student living with depression is weighed down by an ever-present albatross; an unhappy wife turns into a spider; a boy with a dark secret is haunted by dolls; a couple bound for a colony on Mars take a road trip through Texas; a girl fights to save her sister from growing a mermaid tail like their absent mother. Magical yet human, haunted and haunting, these stories act as a surreal documentation of the mistakes in systems of the past that remain very much in the present. Ferrante investigates toxic masculinity and the devastation it enacts upon women and our planet, delving into the universal undercurrent of ecological anxiety in the face of such toxicity, and the personal experience of being a new mother concerned about the future her child will face. Through these confrontations of the complexity of living in a woman's body, Her Body Among Animals moves us from hopelessness to a future of resilience and possibility." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- When foxes die electric
- The underside of a wing
- Mermaid girls
- Finding Houdini
- A trick of the dark
- Everyday horror show
- Pandora
- Cobwebs
- The silent grave of birds
- So what if it's supposed to rain
- Amonge chameleons and other shades.
- Notes:
- Subtitle from cover.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ferrante, Paola. Her body among animals.
- ISBN:
- 9781771668385
- 1771668385
- OCLC:
- 1371749477
- Publisher Number:
- 99994764180
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