| Description |
245 pages ; 21 cm |
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Gender group: gdr Women |
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Sexual orientation group: sxo Lesbians |
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Nationality/regional group: nat Pennsylvanians |
| Contents |
Husband stitch -- Inventory -- Mothers -- Especially heinous -- Real women have bodies -- Eight bites -- Resident -- Difficult at parties. |
| Summary |
Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. |
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Presents a collection of short stories about 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 '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. --Adapted from publisher description. |
| Awards |
National Book Award Finalist, 2017 |
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Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Fiction, 2018. |
| Subject |
Women -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction. |
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Women -- Identity -- Fiction.
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Women -- Identity. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships. |
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Sexual minorities -- Fiction.
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Sexual minorities. |
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Libido -- Fiction.
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Libido. |
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Women. |
| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Science fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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LGBTQ+ people. |
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Sexual minorities. |
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Libido. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Husband stitch.
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Inventory.
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Mothers.
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Especially heinous.
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Real women have bodies.
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Eight bites.
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Resident.
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Container of (work): Machado, Carmen Maria.
Difficult at parties.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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Husband stitch.
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Inventory.
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Mothers.
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Especially heinous.
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Real women have bodies.
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Eight bites.
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Resident.
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Difficult at parties.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Machado, Carmen Maria. Short stories. Selections. Her body and other parties (OCoLC)1123220644 |
| ISBN |
9781555977887 (paperback) |
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155597788X (paperback) |
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9781781259528 |
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1781259526 |
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