{"product_id":"the-woman-who-cut-off-her-leg-at-the-maidstone-club-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club: And Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Slavin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Times Notable Book: Darkly comic fables of modern life from a \"major discovery\" whose \"writing gets in your bloodstream like a fever\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A housewife with a ravenous lust for the adolescent boy who mows her lawn swallows him whole. A woman nonchalantly hacks off her leg at a posh private club. A father babyproofs his house so thoroughly he never sees his wife and child. And a businessman passing through an airport risks it all to save a giant lobster from death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these \"brisk, funny, stylish, original\" stories, the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eCarnivore Diet\u003c\/i\u003e merges the mundane with the unimaginable, and peels back the squeaky-clean façade of suburbia to expose the strangeness underneath (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e). Combining biting wit, wild imagination, and \"unsettling, hallucinatory\" prose, Julia Slavin masterfully satirizes the world of upscale families and young professionals as they confront their greatest fantasies and most grotesque fears in unexpected, and often hilarious, ways (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Slavin is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eCarnivore Diet\u003c\/i\u003e, which Jonathan Yardley of the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e chose as one of the best three books of fiction of 2005. Slavin is the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e's Frederick Exley Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and her stories have been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew. \"Covered\" was read by Alec Baldwin as part of the Symphony Space Selected Shorts series, and the recording can be heard on the \"Too Hot for Radio\" podcast. She is currently working on another collection, \u003ci\u003eStories for Squatters\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760595042592,"sku":"9781504048644","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6bfbe18b3373179814433dfce92726b1.webp?v=1780184289","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-woman-who-cut-off-her-leg-at-the-maidstone-club-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}