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The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club: And Other Stories
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781504048644
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: Jan 9 2018
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A housewife with a ravenous lust for the adolescent boy who mows her lawn swallows him whole. A woman nonchalantly hacks off her leg at a posh private club. A father babyproofs his house so thoroughly he never sees his wife and child. And a businessman passing through an airport risks it all to save a giant lobster from death.
In these brisk, funny, stylish, original stories, the award-winning author of Carnivore Diet merges the mundane with the unimaginable, and peels back the squeaky-clean façade of suburbia to expose the strangeness underneath (Elle). Combining biting wit, wild imagination, and unsettling, hallucinatory prose, Julia Slavin masterfully satirizes the world of upscale families and young professionals as they confront their greatest fantasies and most grotesque fears in unexpected, and often hilarious, ways (The New York Times Book Review).
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