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02277aam a2200385 i 4500 001 A99FF240A5D011E8889A5D6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20180822010022 008 171221s2018 mnu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2017056244 020 $a 1566895154 020 $a 9781566895156 040 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ7798.422.A76 $b C6613 2018 082 00 $a 863/.7 $2 23 100 1 $a Larraquy, Roque, $d 1975- $e author. 240 10 $a Comemadre. $l English. 245 10 $a Comemadre / $c Roque Larraquy ; translated by Heather Cleary. 250 $a First English-language edition. 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b Coffee House Press, $c 2018. 300 $a 129 pages ; $c 20 cm. 500 $a "First published by Editorial EntropiÌa as La Comemadre, © 2010" -- ECIP galley. 520 $a "1907: In a sanatorium in Temperley, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Doctor Quintana falls in love with MeneÌndez, the head nurse--of whom he knows almost nothing, not even her first name. Motivated by this love--which he shares with his colleagues--by money, and by the promise of transcendence, he carries out a cruel and misguided experiment that investigates the threshold between life and death. The premise is that a human head stays alive and conscious for nine seconds after being severed from the body. 2009: A celebrated artist and ex-child prodigy decides to "bring the monster alive," converting his own body, and the bodies of those he loves, into art objects. The halves of the book are held together by a shared interest in the human pursuit of transcendence through bodily intervention, first as it relates to the scientific or pseudo-medical and the positivism that marked the beginning of the twentieth century, then by way of a radical and absurd artistic vision." -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Physicians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Cruelty $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Dystopian fiction. $2 gsafd. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd. 700 1 $a Cleary, Heather, $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032207.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210820011049.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20180829024529.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A99FF240A5D011E8889A5D6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search