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Her Body and Other Parties
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.
Startling narratives map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited on their bodies, both in myth and in practice. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store's dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest. Bodies become inconsequential, humans become monstrous, anger becomes erotic.
A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-04-23
Brilliant
I don’t read much contemporary litterature, but this was worthwhile. CMM writes the unreliable narrator reminiscant of Shirley Jackson and spins a modern fairytale like Angela Carter, two of my favorite authors. Highly enjoyable, confusing in a dreamlogical sense.
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- Hayley
- 24-10-19
great writing
The recording sounds clipped and is hard to follow at times but excellent short story writing
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-06-23
Excellent
Usually don’t like short stories but I was hooked from the green ribbon. A really excellent collection of works.
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- Sebrina Autumn Calkins
- 03-07-24
Machado's words smoulder and scream with dark magic and silence becoming deafening
I absolutely loved this.
These stories are dark and uncomfortable and beautiful on how ugly and honest and violent they are, despite the explicit implicitly of said violence upon women and femmes.
Machado's words smoulder and scream with dark magic and silence becoming deafening.
I wouldn't say these are easy or even pleasant stories to read. They definitely took some work from me. But they are phenemonal and powerful.
It's rare that I feel so immediately compelled to return to a collection of stories, but I really am eager to return to this.
Telling a story through 272 descriptions of increasingly unsettling and bizarre Law and Order: SVU episodes is one of the most inspired, original, and brilliant things I've ever had the pleasure of reading. I cannot believe how compelling it is!
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-10-19
Modern women's gothic
Carmen Maria Machado has taken contemporary daily life for western women and woven deliciously gothic elements into it to create a dark and menacing yet eerily familiar collection of tales. There are absolute flashes of brilliance but too many of the stories outstay their welcome. I understand the plaudits this book has received but it didn't quite live up to the hype for me. I have high hopes for future work from Machado though.
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- Nick Rodrigues
- 24-03-22
Good, but not all around
Carmen delivers brilliance and continues to be an authentic author in several stories. However, the book is far too long. It could have been trimmed and to make the most of its gems and make sure they are not buried under several in between pages.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-05-22
So much to think about
So many women's stories, vignettes of lives lived and disrupted. Tales ancient, urban mythed and new found.Visceral descriptions, intellectual imagery and page turning reads. I'll be back.....
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- K. D. Hallam
- 08-05-23
Absolutely everything I wanted
This book is creepy, sexy, sad and funny. The stories are varied and luciously written. Lovely contemporary gothic collection.
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- D. C. Downer
- 27-04-22
confusing relies on sensationalism, returning 😕
I can't understand how this was a recommendation from my previous listening. The story was totally disjointed, no seaway which made sense & quite honestly just pretentious. I gave it 3 hours & returned, which I hardly ever do!
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- G. Newton
- 19-10-24
The first story was very good
The second was pretty good, The rest felt like a painful waste of time, I'm sorry to say
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