Rag Stories |
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| Author:
| Meijer, Maryse |
| ISBN: | 978-0-374-24623-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2019 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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ANew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One ofLibrary Journal's Best Short Story Collections of 2019.One ofVol. 1 Brooklyn andTor.com's Books to Read in February. "Sharp, haunting . . . [Meijer] writes wonderfully of the trap of the self, with its impossible prisons of circumstance and identity, not to mention the perversity of being buried alive, alone, inside a body." --Merritt Tierce,The New York Times Book...
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ANew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One ofLibrary Journal's Best Short Story Collections of 2019.One ofVol. 1 Brooklyn andTor.com's Books to Read in February.
"Sharp, haunting . . . [Meijer] writes wonderfully of the trap of the self, with its impossible prisons of circumstance and identity, not to mention the perversity of being buried alive, alone, inside a body." --Merritt Tierce,The New York Times Book Review
From the author ofHeartbreaker, a disquieting collection tracing the destructive consequences of the desire for connection
A man, forgotten by the world, takes care of his deaf brother while euthanizing dogs for a living. A stepbrother so desperately wants to become his stepsibling that he rapes his girlfriend. In Maryse Meijer's decidedly dark and searingly honest collectionRag, the desperate human desire for connection slips into a realm that approximates horror.
Meijer's explosive debut collection,Heartbreaker, reinvented sexualized and romantic taboos, holding nothing back. InRag, Meijer's fearless follow-up, she shifts her focus to the dark heart of intimacies of all kinds, and the ways in which isolated people's yearning for community can breed violence, danger, and madness. With unparalleled precision, Meijer spins stories that leave you troubled and slightly shaken by her uncanny ability to elicit empathy for society's most marginalized people.