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The Melancholy of Anatomy: Stories
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ISBN10: 038572120X
ISBN13: 9780385721202
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 2 2002
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780385721202
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 2 2002
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
Amusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light. Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world. Hearts bigger than planets devour light and warp the space around them; the city of London has a menstrual flow that gushes through its underground pipes; gobs of phlegm cement friendships and sexual relationships; and a floating fetus larger than a human becomes the new town pastor. In this debut story collection, Shelley Jackson rewrites our private passages, and translates the dumb show of the body into prose as gorgeous as it is unhygienic.
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