The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club

The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 9781504048620
ISBN-13 : 1504048628
Rating : 4/5 (628 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club by : Julia Slavin

Download or read book The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club written by Julia Slavin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book: Darkly comic fables of modern life from a “major discovery” whose “writing gets in your bloodstream like a fever” (The Washington Post Book World). 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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