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Cris Mazza - Animal Acts, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Animal Acts

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Av Cris Mazza

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The line between human and animal is thinner than you think.In a striking first collection of stories, Cris Mazza brings a startling vision to the familiar terrain of intimate relationships. The eleven stories in Animal Acts describe characters navigating an unsteady course through the turbulence of sexial desire. Set in unmistakably American landscapes—from sprawling West Coast cities to the dry, dusty scrub of rural Southern California—the work is populated by gym teachers, aging flower children, secretaries and artists—most of them strong, willful women. The narrator of the title story holds the guests at a party spellbound with her fantastic retelling of another woman's perverse life—which may, in fact, be her own—thereby seducing a man who has previously eluded her. Mazza's arresting narrative structures and sharp sense of the absurd make for a dazzling debut collection.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-31
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 454 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 163
  • Förlag: The University of Alabama Press
  • ISBN: 9781573662246
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Cris Mazza (born 1956) is an American novelist, short story and non-fiction writer. She directs the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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"The stories contained in Cris Mazza's Animal Acts express an utterly original vision that is closer in spirit to Blue Velvet than to anything one is likely to encounter in the works of any of the "New Realists." Once you get beneath the deceptively simple surfaces of these stories you find yourself in a startling disquieting world where daily "civilized" behavior clashes headlong with the fantastic, irrational aspects of ourselves normally hidden from public scrutiny. Mazza's writing style—with its precise rendering of exterior details, its dark humor, its disturbing intensity—is perfectly suited to plumb the passions and mysteries lying barely concealed within the lives of her ordinary-seeming characters."—Larry McCaffery

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