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Cris Mazza - Disability, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Disability

A Novella

Av Cris Mazza

217 kr

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Redefining strength, one truth at a time.Told in a broken shorthand voice, Mazza's language is acute, evoking a place where the patients, the caregivers, and the system are all disabled. Teri and Cleo are minimum-wage nurse-aides at a state ward for severely retarded and physically handicapped children. They are expected to feed, bathe, clothe, and carry out the required therapies for their patients in a 4-hour shift. They're working within a system where money for therapy is only continued if therapy shows improvement--and yet the state-paid therapists who oversee the ward know the patients will never show any improvement. To keep the money coming in, it is up to the minimum-wage caregivers to "see" and chart important improvements, thus keeping the therapy program alive. Blinded in their own way by their pet-like adoption of favorite patients, Teri and Cleo struggle to remain both optimistic and realistic. As their personal failures mount--and even transpose or emulate the travesties within the state ward--Teri and Cleo, with their own unseen "disabilities" in dealing with their lives and pasts, react harshly to the breakdown in the emotional balancing act.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-31
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 454 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 100
  • Förlag: The University of Alabama Press
  • ISBN: 9781573662222
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Cris Mazza's first novel, How to Leave a Country, won the PEN / Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction. Some of her other notable earlier titles include Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? (FC2, 1998), Your Name Here: ___ (Coffee House Press, 1995), and Dog People (Coffee House Press, 1997). She is also co-editor of Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction (FC2, 1995), and Chick-Lit 2 (No Chick Vics) (FC2, 1996). Mazza's most recent books include Indigenous / Growing Up Californian (City Lights, 2003) and Homeland (Small Press Distribution, 2004). A native of Southern California, Mazza has lived outside Chicago since 1993. She is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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"Disability is as dense, relentless, tender, savage, and strange as moment-by-moment life itself, conjured on the page whole."—Elizabeth Searle, author of Celebrities in Disgrace"[Mazza] continues to work with passion, insight and a certain cold beauty."—Publishers Weekly"Mazza is a subversive and anarchistic writer."—Wall Street JournalPraise for Mazza's Girl Beside Him:"A gifted editor of innovative fiction by women, Cris Mazza is also one of its most audacious practitioners."—Jaimy Gordon, author of Bogeywoman

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