Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

von Carmen Maria Machado

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Beschreibung

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction

“[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”―Roxane Gay

“In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”―Karen Russell

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map 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 the bravura novella “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.

Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.

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Format

Taschenbuch

Seitenzahl

245

Preis

19.29 €

Beiträge

8

4

Overall rating ✦✦✦.75 Individual ratings The Husband Stitch ✦✦✦✦.5 Inventory ✦✦✦✦✦ Mothers ✦✦.5 Especially Heinous ✦✦✦ Real Women Have Bodies ✦✦✦.5 Eight Bites ✦✦✦✦✦ The Resident ✦✦✦✦ Difficult At Parties ✦✦.5

4

Story No.1 The Husband Itch - 5/5 stars Story no. 2 Inventory - 4/5 Story no. 3 Mothers - no rating (had to skip because of baby content) Story no 4 especially heinous - 5/5 Story no. 5 Real women have bodies 5/5 Story no. 6 Eight bites 4/5 Story no. 7 Resident 3/5 Story no. 8 Difficult at Parties 4/5 I felt like these stories were all very uncomfortable in a very good way. If that makes sense...

4

I really would have wished to give this five stars. The author´s writing style and the tone she creates are marvellous and I saved about a dozen quotes to think about again later on. Unfortunately, two or three of the stories in this book weren´t for me at all and I cannot say that i fully understood all of the others. Regardless, I highly recommend picking this up.

2

This review is very difficult since I don't really know what to think about this. While I was reading most of the stories, I was maximum confused and it was difficult to understand some things so I had to reread whole passages. But after reading the whole collection and thinking about it, I have to admit that I had a really good time, some made me cry some left me absolutely confused but I think that's what the author was going for. The topics that are being adressed in here are very important and make you think about yourself and your view on bodies and sexuality.

2

Let's say none of the stories worked for me.

5

This was life-changing.

Eine ganz, ganz große Empfehlung. Aber (!) Es ist wirklich kein leichtes Buch. Es hat mich berührt, wie bisher (und das meine ich ehrlich, ich habe lang drüber nachgedacht) keines. Der Anfang fiel mir schwer, musste mich erst an Machados Erzählstil gewöhnen, doch once I got it fand ich es genau richtig und kann mir die Erzählungen gar nicht anders erzählt vorstellen. Die Kapitel sind gleichzeitig so offensichtlich und auch so subtil, es schreit dich an SIEH HIN, SIEH WAS HIER PASSIERT, und doch schafft es sich von hinten an dich zu schleichen und plötzlich mit der Schwere und Leichtigkeit gleichzeitig zu überfallen. Es ist Resignation und Kampf, Wut und Trauer, aufgeben und aufstehen, Verlust und Gewinn, laut und leise, Verlangen und Hingabe. Es hat ein Ende und doch endet es nicht.

5

can't wait to read her memoir and everything else she'll ever write, thank you very much

3

3.5 stars I'm not really sure how I feel about this book, since there are some stories that I could just not get into at all, especially the one called "Especially Heinous", which was just a recap of 12 seasons of Law & Order SUV. Not really sure what the point of that one was. However, my favourite stories were "Difficult At Parties" and "The Resident". The former really got to me since it was about a woman dealing with the aftermaths of sexual assault. Overall I'd say this is an okay read, but you'd might like some of the stories more than the others.

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Beschreibung

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction

“[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”―Roxane Gay

“In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”―Karen Russell

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map 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 the bravura novella “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.

Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.

Haupt-Genre

N/A

Sub-Genre

N/A

Format

Taschenbuch

Seitenzahl

245

Preis

19.29 €

Beiträge

8

4

Overall rating ✦✦✦.75 Individual ratings The Husband Stitch ✦✦✦✦.5 Inventory ✦✦✦✦✦ Mothers ✦✦.5 Especially Heinous ✦✦✦ Real Women Have Bodies ✦✦✦.5 Eight Bites ✦✦✦✦✦ The Resident ✦✦✦✦ Difficult At Parties ✦✦.5

4

Story No.1 The Husband Itch - 5/5 stars Story no. 2 Inventory - 4/5 Story no. 3 Mothers - no rating (had to skip because of baby content) Story no 4 especially heinous - 5/5 Story no. 5 Real women have bodies 5/5 Story no. 6 Eight bites 4/5 Story no. 7 Resident 3/5 Story no. 8 Difficult at Parties 4/5 I felt like these stories were all very uncomfortable in a very good way. If that makes sense...

4

I really would have wished to give this five stars. The author´s writing style and the tone she creates are marvellous and I saved about a dozen quotes to think about again later on. Unfortunately, two or three of the stories in this book weren´t for me at all and I cannot say that i fully understood all of the others. Regardless, I highly recommend picking this up.

2

This review is very difficult since I don't really know what to think about this. While I was reading most of the stories, I was maximum confused and it was difficult to understand some things so I had to reread whole passages. But after reading the whole collection and thinking about it, I have to admit that I had a really good time, some made me cry some left me absolutely confused but I think that's what the author was going for. The topics that are being adressed in here are very important and make you think about yourself and your view on bodies and sexuality.

2

Let's say none of the stories worked for me.

5

This was life-changing.

Eine ganz, ganz große Empfehlung. Aber (!) Es ist wirklich kein leichtes Buch. Es hat mich berührt, wie bisher (und das meine ich ehrlich, ich habe lang drüber nachgedacht) keines. Der Anfang fiel mir schwer, musste mich erst an Machados Erzählstil gewöhnen, doch once I got it fand ich es genau richtig und kann mir die Erzählungen gar nicht anders erzählt vorstellen. Die Kapitel sind gleichzeitig so offensichtlich und auch so subtil, es schreit dich an SIEH HIN, SIEH WAS HIER PASSIERT, und doch schafft es sich von hinten an dich zu schleichen und plötzlich mit der Schwere und Leichtigkeit gleichzeitig zu überfallen. Es ist Resignation und Kampf, Wut und Trauer, aufgeben und aufstehen, Verlust und Gewinn, laut und leise, Verlangen und Hingabe. Es hat ein Ende und doch endet es nicht.

5

can't wait to read her memoir and everything else she'll ever write, thank you very much

3

3.5 stars I'm not really sure how I feel about this book, since there are some stories that I could just not get into at all, especially the one called "Especially Heinous", which was just a recap of 12 seasons of Law & Order SUV. Not really sure what the point of that one was. However, my favourite stories were "Difficult At Parties" and "The Resident". The former really got to me since it was about a woman dealing with the aftermaths of sexual assault. Overall I'd say this is an okay read, but you'd might like some of the stories more than the others.

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