The wilds
Subtitle: stories
By: by Julia Elliott
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781935639923
Subjects: Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "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'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 the tenets of classic storytelling, Elliott revels in lush lyricism, dark humor, and experimental play. "--
Table of contents: title: Rapture --; title: LIMBs --; title: Feral --; title: Jaws --; title: The wilds --; title: Regeneration an Mukti --; title: The whipping --; title: Caveman diet --; title: Organisms --; title: The love machine --; title: The end of the world.