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ISBN10: 1551529157
ISBN13: 9781551529158
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: May 2 2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781551529158
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: May 2 2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human.
For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that explore bodies both human and animal: our fascination with their strange effluences, growths, and protrusions, and the dangerous ways we play with their power to inflict harm on ourselves and on others.
For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that explore bodies both human and animal: our fascination with their strange effluences, growths, and protrusions, and the dangerous ways we play with their power to inflict harm on ourselves and on others.
Throughout The Whole Animal, flawed characters wrestle with the complexities of relationships with partners, parents, children, and friends as they struggle to find identity, belonging, and autonomy. Bodies are divided, often elusive, even grotesque. In Porcelain Legs, a pre-teen fixes on the long, thick hair growing from her mother's eyelid. In Wolf-Boy Saturday, a linguist grasps for connection with a young boy whose negligent upbringing has left him unable to speak. In Butter Buns, a college student sees his mother in a new light when she takes up body-building. With strange
juxtapositions, beguiling dark humour, and lurid imagery, The Whole Animal illuminates the everyday experiences of loneliness and loss, of self-alienation and self-discovery, that make us human.
juxtapositions, beguiling dark humour, and lurid imagery, The Whole Animal illuminates the everyday experiences of loneliness and loss, of self-alienation and self-discovery, that make us human.
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