Caloyeras Jennifer Caloyeras

Unruly Creatures (eBook, PDF)

Stories

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Independent Publisher's Book Awards, Silver Medal, Short Story FictionIn this collection rife with humor and pathos, alienated characters struggle to subvert, contain, control, and even escape their bodies. A teenage girl grapples with pubic hair grown wild, a biologist finds herself in love with a gorilla, a prisoner yearns to escape her biological destiny. In some stories, the bodies have surrogates: a high-school girl babysits an elderly woman s plastic doll while negotiating her own sexual awakening, and a young man finds that he can only receive affection from his father when he is in costume. Dark humor and magical realism put in sharp relief the everyday trials of Americans in a story collection that asks, in what way are we more than the sum of our parts?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: West Virginia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781943665808
• Artikelnr.: 55121031

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Caloyeras is the author of the short fiction collection, Unruly Creatures. She teaches writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She has been the writer-in-residence at the Annenberg in Santa Monica and spent ten years as the dog columnist for the Los Feliz Ledger. Jennifer lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two sons and two dogs. Learn more about Jennifer by visiting www.jennifercaloyeras.com.