Format:
Book
Author:
Elliott, Julia, 1968- author.
Title:
The wilds : stories / by Julia Elliott.
Publisher, Date:
Portland, OR : Tin House Books, 2014.
Description:
370 pages ; 20 cm
Summary:
"At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and begins to explore her environment with the assistance of strap-on robot legs. At a deluxe medical spa on a nameless Caribbean island, a middle-aged woman hopes to revitalize her fading youth with grotesque rejuvenating therapies that combine cutting-edge medical technologies with holistic approaches and the pseudo-religious dogma of Zen-infused self-help. And in a rinky-dink mill town, an adolescent girl is unexpectedly inspired by the ravings and miraculous levitation of her fundamentalist friend's weird grandmother. These are only a few of the scenarios readers encounter in Julia Elliott's debut collection, The Wilds. "-- Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Experimental fiction.
Short stories.
Other Title:
Short stories. Selections
Contents:
Rapture -- LIMBs -- Feral -- Jaws -- The wilds -- Regeneration an Mukti -- The whipping -- Caveman diet -- Organisms -- The love machine -- The end of the world.
LCCN:
2014011906
ISBN:
9781935639923 (paperback)
1935639927 (paperback)
Other Number:
880959998
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3243731
Call Number:
813/.6
Course Reserves:
0
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1