Inside Madeleine
By: Paula Bomer
Publisher: Soho Press, Inc.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781616953096
Subjects: Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "A young anorexic girl comes to terms with her changing body while lying in the hospital; Polly deals with her unwelcome puberty whilst falling prey to peer pressure in the suspenseful vein of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mary's nice-girl attitude is challenged when she begins a job at a psych ward; two best friends discover the power of being beautiful and young; Madeleine discovers menstruation and the power that comes with it; a kinky sexual relationship turns into a dangerous obsession. This eagerly awaited book seethes with alienation, lust and rage. It's even more daring and accomplished than Bomer's first collection, which Jonathan Franzen described as "like being attacked by a rabid dog-- and feeling grateful for it. This is some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering.""--
Table of contents: title: Eye socket girls --; title: Breasts --; title: Reading to the blind girl --; title: Down the alley --; title: Outsiders --; title: Cleveland circle house --; title: Pussies --; title: Two years --; title: Inside Madeleine.