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Author:

Enriquez, Mariana, author.

Title:

The dangers of smoking in bed : stories / Mariana Enriquez ; translated by Megan McDowell.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Hogarth,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

187 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Short stories, Argentine.
Short stories.
Horror fiction.

Other Authors:

McDowell, Megan, translator.

Other Titles:

Short stories. Selections. English

Notes:

"Originally published in Spain as Los peligros de fumar en la cama by Editorial Anagrama in Barcelona, Spain, 2017."--Title page verso.

Contents:

Back when we talked to the dead. Our lady of the quarry -- The cart -- The well -- Rambla Triste -- The lookout -- Where are you, dear herat? -- Meat -- No birthdays or baptisms -- Kids who come back -- The dangers of smoking in bed -- Back when we talked to the dead.

Summary:

"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can't let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death by a question of morality they fail to answer correctly. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with resounding tenderness towards those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, this new collection from one of Argentina's most exciting writers finds Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0593134079
9780593134078

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1147958283

LCCN:

2020003911

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

CZPD706 -- West Liberty Public Library (West Liberty)