Fruiting Bodies: Stories

Fruiting Bodies: Stories
Author :
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 178
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781324021230
ISBN-13 : 1324021233
Rating : 4/5 (233 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Fruiting Bodies: Stories by : Kathryn Harlan

Download or read book Fruiting Bodies: Stories written by Kathryn Harlan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction One of Vulture's Best Books of the Year “Expansively fantastical and palpably real.” —Mary Retta, Vulture This genre-bending debut collection of stories constructs eight eerie worlds full of desire, wisdom, and magic blooming amid decay. In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters—mostly queer, mostly women—on the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a time of crisis. In “The Changeling,” two young cousins wait in dread for a new family member to arrive, convinced that he may be a dangerous supernatural creature. In “Endangered Animals,” Jane prepares to say goodbye to her almost-love while they road-trip across a country irrevocably altered by climate change. In “Take Only What Belongs to You,” a queer woman struggles with the personal history of an author she idolized, while in “Fiddler, Fool, Pair,” an anthropologist is drawn into a magical—and dangerous—gamble. In the title story, partners Agnes and Geb feast peacefully on the mushrooms that sprout from Agnes’s body—until an unwanted male guest disturbs their cloistered home. Audacious, striking, and wholly original, Fruiting Bodies offers stories about knowledge in a world on the verge of collapse, knowledge that alternately empowers or devastates. Pulling beautifully, brazenly, from a variety of literary traditions, Kathryn Harlan firmly establishes herself as a thrilling new voice in fiction.


Fruiting Bodies: Stories Related Books

Fruiting Bodies: Stories
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Kathryn Harlan
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-07 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

GET EBOOK

Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction One of Vulture's Best Books of the Year “Expansively fantastical and palpably real.” —Mary Retta, Vul
Germ Stories
Language: en
Pages: 92
Authors: Arthur Kornberg
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-30 - Publisher: University Science Books

GET EBOOK

Bringing the microscopic world to life, this book has richly imaginative narrations with rendered art and colour photographs.
Amazing Stories
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors:
Categories: Science fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

The Best New Horror 5
Language: en
Pages: 454
Authors: Ramsey Campbell
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-28 - Publisher: Robinson

GET EBOOK

Best New Horror has established itself as the world's premier horror annual, showcasing the talents of the very best writers working in the horror and dark fant
The Second Wish and Other Exhalations
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Brian Lumley
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-13 - Publisher: Crossroad Press

GET EBOOK

This may be The Second Wish, but it's the third witch's dozen of nerve-rending stories of the macabre from the man who gave you the internationally bestselling