The Babysitter at Rest

Fiction. Five stories--several as long as novellas--introduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald Barthelme and Leonora Carrington no less than Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. In Guidance/The Party, an ethereal alcoholic Guide in robes and flowing hair appears to help a thirty- three-year-old woman prepare a party for her belated adulthood; Take Care of Me Forever tragically lambasts the medical profession as a ship of fools afloat in loneliness and narcissism; Instruction chronicles a season in an unconventional art school called The Warehouse, where students divide their time between orgies, art critiques, and burying dead racehorses. Combining slapstick, surrealism, erotica, and social criticism, Jen George's sprawling creative energy belies the secret precision and unexpected tenderness of everything she writes.

Author: Jen George
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Published: 10/17/2016
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780997366624
ISBN10: 0997366621
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Feminist
- Fiction | Satire

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