num_pages: 128
description: These are stories that ambush the reader with Elison's signature style: a drolly disturbing admixture of dry irony and simmering rage. 'El Hug' reveals how small-town small-time teens can accomplish Big Ugly Things on their own. 'Big Girl chronicles the medias fascination with the towering anxieties of a sixty-foot tall teen. 'The Pill' the collection's previously unpublished centerpiece celebrates a miracle cure for obesity that sends society to a grimly delightful new utopia. 'With Such People in It' also new to readers welcomes us to a brave new world where cowardice is a virtue. 'Gone with Gone with the Wind' is a non-fiction analysis of privilege denial literary classics and personal honesty. 'Afterimage' is a one-way trip into a VR world thats more real than our own.Also included is 'Guts' which is about just what its title suggests as well this volume's characteristically frank and thought-provoking Outspoken Interview.
language: English
title: Big Girl
publisher: PM Press