{"product_id":"near-flesh-by-katherine-dunn","title":"Near Flesh by Katherine Dunn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Dunn’s pieces have an almost irrepressible kinetic energy.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Alexandra Kleeman,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA previously unpublished collection of stories about motherhood, violence, and desire, from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA woman invests in a series of sex robots to get her off and comes to terms with the limitations—and real threat—of automated companionship. A knowing young student pursues an affair with an older man, the poet in residence at the university where she studies writing, and weighs the benefits and costs of their arrangement. A mother moves to a farm with her family and must come to terms with the violence simmering beneath her skin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNear Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first and only collection of short fiction by Katherine Dunn, the author of the bestselling novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. These nineteen stories are, like Dunn’s entire body of work, attuned to the spit and grit of tough living. They pulse with yearning for a more prosperous life, for sexual satisfaction, to escape abusive husbands and the disappointments of convention. A better life, for these mostly female protagonists, seems always just out of reach. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNear Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Dunn explores the struggle of women to live on their own terms, and the desire to relish—rather than squash—what distinguishes a person.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57992195932326,"sku":"9781250448231","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/4637\/7638\/files\/9781250448231.jpg?v=1793656639","url":"https:\/\/woollybearbooks.com\/products\/near-flesh-by-katherine-dunn","provider":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}