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Inside Madeleine / Paula Bomer.

by Bomer, Paula.

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Soho Press, Inc., c2014.

9781616953096 (trade pbk.)

1616953098 (trade pbk.)

272 p. ; 21 cm.

"Eye Socket Girls" -- first appeared in Girls: An Anthology (Global City Press) -- "Breasts" -- first appeared in The Mississippi Review Online -- "Reading to the Blind Girl" -- first appeared in Storyglossia -- "Down the Alley" -- first appeared in The New York Tyrant -- "Cleveland Circle House" -- "Pussies" -- first appeared in Night Train -- "The Favorite Daughter" -- first appeared in Necessary Fiction -- "Two Years" -- first appeared in Nerve -- "Inside Madeleine" -- an excerpt first appeared in Nerve.

"A young anorexic girl comes to terms with her changing body while lying in the hospital; Polly deals with her unwelcome puberty whilst falling prey to peer pressure in the suspenseful vein of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mary's nice-girlattitude is challenged when she begins a job at a psych ward; two best friends discover the power of being beautiful and young; Madeleine discovers menstruation and the power that comes with it; a kinky sexual relationship turns into a dangerous obsession. This eagerly awaited book seethes with alienation, lust and rage. It's even more daring and accomplished than Bomer's first collection, which Jonathan Franzen described as "like being attacked by a rabid dog-- and feeling grateful for it. This is some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering.""--Publisher.

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