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The dangers of smoking in bed : stories
- Title
- The dangers of smoking in bed : stories / Mariana Enriquez ; translated by Megan McDowell.
- Author
- Enriquez, Mariana
- Publication
- London ; New York : Hogarth, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- McDowell, Megan
- Description
- 187 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can't let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death by a question of morality they fail to answer correctly. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with resounding tenderness towards those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, this new collection from one of Argentina's most exciting writers finds Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling"--
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Short stories.
- Horror fiction.
- Note
- "Originally published in Spain as Los peligros de fumar en la cama by Editorial Anagrama in Barcelona, Spain, 2017."--Title page verso.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Contents
- Angelita unearthed -- Our lady of the quarry -- The cart -- The well -- Rambla Triste -- The lookout -- Where are you, dear heart? -- Meat -- No birthdays or baptisms -- Kids who come back -- The dangers of smoking in bed -- Back when we talked to the dead.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-828
- ISBN
- 9780593134078
- 0593134079
- LCCN
- 2020003911
- 40030364494
- OCLC
- 1147958283
- Author
- Enriquez, Mariana, author.
- Title
- The dangers of smoking in bed : stories / Mariana Enriquez ; translated by Megan McDowell.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Hogarth, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Added Author
- McDowell, Megan, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Enriquez, Mariana. The dangers of smoking in bed. First edition London ; New York : Hogarth, [2020] 9780593134085 (DLC) 2020003912
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030364494
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-828