{"product_id":"9781250448231","title":"Near Flesh: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Dunn’s pieces have an almost irrepressible kinetic energy.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alexandra Kleeman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA previously unpublished collection of stories about motherhood, violence, and desire, from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of \u003ci\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA woman invests in a series of sex robots to get her off and comes to terms with the limitations—and real threat—of automated companionship. A knowing young student pursues an affair with an older man, the poet in residence at the university where she studies writing, and weighs the benefits and costs of their arrangement. A mother moves to a farm with her family and must come to terms with the violence simmering beneath her skin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNear Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e is the first and only collection of short fiction by Katherine Dunn, the author of the bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/i\u003e. These nineteen stories are, like Dunn’s entire body of work, attuned to the spit and grit of tough living. They pulse with yearning for a more prosperous life, for sexual satisfaction, to escape abusive husbands and the disappointments of convention. A better life, for these mostly female protagonists, seems always just out of reach. In \u003ci\u003eNear Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e, Dunn explores the struggle of women to live on their own terms, and the desire to relish—rather than squash—what distinguishes a person.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43832302043197,"sku":"9781250448231","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781250448231_p0.jpg?v=1792153323","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781250448231","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}