Unruly creatures /
Caloyeras, Jennifer,
Unruly creatures / Jennifer Caloyeras. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"In 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 transvestite 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?"--
9781943665792 (electronic bk.) 1943665796 (electronic bk.) 9781943665808 (electronic bk.) 194366580X (electronic bk.) (paperback)
2017020124
2000-2099
Short stories, American--21st century.
Nouvelles américaines--21e siècle.
FICTION--Short Stories (single author)
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Short stories, American.
Electronic books.
PS3603.A446248
813/.6
Unruly creatures / Jennifer Caloyeras. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"In 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 transvestite 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?"--
9781943665792 (electronic bk.) 1943665796 (electronic bk.) 9781943665808 (electronic bk.) 194366580X (electronic bk.) (paperback)
2017020124
2000-2099
Short stories, American--21st century.
Nouvelles américaines--21e siècle.
FICTION--Short Stories (single author)
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Short stories, American.
Electronic books.
PS3603.A446248
813/.6