The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club

And Other Stories

By: Julia Slavin

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Paperback | 9 January 2018

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224 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 1.3

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A New York Times Notable Book: Darkly comic fables of modern life from a “major discovery” whose “writing gets in your bloodstream like a fever” (The Washington Post Book World).

A housewife with a ravenous lust for the adolescent boy who mows her lawn swallows him whole. A woman nonchalantly hacks off her leg at a posh private club. A father babyproofs his house so thoroughly he never sees his wife and child. And a businessman passing through an airport risks it all to save a giant lobster from death.

In these “brisk, funny, stylish, original” stories, the award-winning author of Carnivore Diet merges the mundane with the unimaginable, and peels back the squeaky-clean façade of suburbia to expose the strangeness underneath (Elle). Combining biting wit, wild imagination, and “unsettling, hallucinatory” prose, Julia Slavin masterfully satirizes the world of upscale families and young professionals as they confront their greatest fantasies and most grotesque fears in unexpected, and often hilarious, ways (The New York Times Book Review).

Industry Reviews

“A wild imagination fused with airtight logic yields truly inventive stories that begin where fantasy and normalcy cross. . . . . Brisk, funny, stylish, original.” —Elle

“Marvelously metaphorical, describing macabre situations of both alienation and redemption.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Julia Slavin is a major discovery. Her writing gets into your bloodstream like a fever.” —The Washington Post Book World

“Haunting and inventive, the stories make you think twice about the seemingly mechanical existences led by the Lilly Pulitzer set, and for that matter, the tumult we all feel trying to balance passion and daily life.” —Harper’s Bazaar

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