The Wilds Stories
eAudio - 2015
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&...#039;s debut collection, The Wilds. In these genre-bending stories, teetering between the ridiculous and the sublime, Elliott's language-driven fiction uses outlandish tropes to capture poignant moments in her humble characters' lives. Without abandoning...
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Recorded Books, Inc.
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- English
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- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
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File Size | 262 GB |
Parts | 10 |
ISBN | 9781490683393 |
Release Date | 8/1/2015 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 262 GB |
ISBN | 9781490683393 |
Release Date | 8/1/2015 |