Synopses & Reviews
In her debut collection, Julia Slavin conjures a world that is both familiar and limitless, where amidst our ordinary lives the banal and the unimaginable brush up against one another with startling grace and ease. A lovelorn woman sprouts teeth all over her body, and returns home one evening with rows of gold fillings glittering upon her skin. A housewife swallows the shirtless adolescent boy who cuts her lawn. And something as innocuous as pudding spilled on the kitchen floor can be grounds for divorce. Astonishingly inventive and wickedly funny, THE WOMAN WHO CUT OFF HER LEG AT THE MAIDSTONE CLUB is a dazzling work of the imagination, and a satiric and piercing look at the soul.
Review
"Marvelously metaphorical, describing macabre situations of both alienation and redemption." -
-Entertainment Weekly"Sparkling...surreal...The bittersweet irony of these stories lies in the revelation that love reduced to a simple physical state is just as complicated, painful, and difficult as love in its evanescent form." --Judy Budnitz, The Village Voice
"I like the stories in The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club because they bubble up out of a quietly desperate, normalized insanity that has a brave tradition in literature and that I believe will be good fuel for the rocket ship that will take us to the new planet." --Susan Salter Reynolds, Newsday
Synopsis
In her debut collection, Julia Slavin conjures a world that is both familiar and limitless, where amidst our ordinary lives the banal and the unimaginable brush up against one another with startling grace and ease. From a lovelorn woman who sprouts teeth all over her body, to a man who literally falls to pieces,
The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club is an inspiring work of the imagination, and a satiric and piercing look at the soul.
Synopsis
In her debut collection, Julia Slavin conjures a world that is both familiar and limitless, where amidst our ordinary lives the banal and the unimaginable brush up against one another with startling grace and ease. From a lovelorn woman who sprouts teeth all over her body, to a man who literally falls to pieces,
The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club is an inspiring work of the imagination, and a satiric and piercing look at the soul.
Synopsis
In her debut collection, Julia Slavin conjures a world that is both familiar and limitless, where amidst our ordinary lives the banal and the unimaginable brush up against one another with startling grace and ease. From a lovelorn woman who sprouts teeth all over her body, to a man who literally falls to pieces, The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club is an inspiring work of the imagination, and a satiric and piercing look at the soul.
About the Author
Julia Slavin's stories have won a Pushcart Prize and
GQ's coveted Frederick Exley Fiction Competition. She worked for a decade as an ABC-TV producer in New York before moving to Washington, D.C., where she lives with her husband. She is currently at work on a novel.