The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
The lauded Argentine author of What We Lost in the Fire returns with enthralling stories conjured from literary sorcery (O: The Oprah Magazine), in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges. 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 new 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 bracing 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 when it fails to respond correctly to a moral dilemma. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with a resounding tenderness toward those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is Mariana Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.
Mariana Enriquez is a writer and editor based in Buenos Aires, where she contributes to a number of newspapers and literary journals, both fiction and nonfiction.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780593134092 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593134095 |
| Title | The Dangers of Smoking in Bed |
| Author | Mariana Enriquez |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hogarth |
| Year published | 2022-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Commended for Kirkus Prize (Fiction) 2021 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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