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With Her Body: Convers...
With Her Body: Conversation Pieces
by
Nicola Griffith (Goodreads Author)
This volume was a finalist for the 2004 Lambda award.
What are these three intense stories about? Hope, joy, the body; mainly joy and the body-- feeling the world on our skin, which is the where Us and Not-Us meet. Nicola Griffith writes about being as well as doing-- about life and love and the fears that keep us from having what we want. About feeling stuff and making d...more
What are these three intense stories about? Hope, joy, the body; mainly joy and the body-- feeling the world on our skin, which is the where Us and Not-Us meet. Nicola Griffith writes about being as well as doing-- about life and love and the fears that keep us from having what we want. About feeling stuff and making d...more
Paperback, 136 pages
Published
October 30th 2004
by Aqueduct Press
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"Yaguara" is the best of the three stories collected, and I'm really glad it survived my education with race without becoming horrible. Or I think so, anyway -- the story is mostly about two white women (one archeologist, one photographer) exploring Mayan ruins, but the "mysterious" were-jaguar Mayans are actually taking calculated and successful steps to prevent their own "discovery" as anything unusual (i.e., they protect their own culture--and intellectual property--very adeptly), and the pot...more
I'm not one for short stories, but they are growing on me. Griffith's stories are particularly interesting as they are female oriented science fiction. There are virtually no men in these stories and the societies are notably different and remarkably similar despite the absence of the male gender. The final story, "Yaguara" even demonstrates a ritualized violence in a predominantly female society, a notion you don't get with most 'female utopia' stories. It's good, really good.
As always I immersed myself in the lush, enticing prose with which Nicola
Griffith paints each story. These shorts were each unique and satisfying.
Few authors can captivate my senses in the same manner and I willingly yield.
"Yaguara" felt almost mythical.
Griffith paints each story. These shorts were each unique and satisfying.
Few authors can captivate my senses in the same manner and I willingly yield.
"Yaguara" felt almost mythical.
I have rarely been as fascinated as I was reading these three stories. Absolutely fantastic!
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Nicola Griffith has won the Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the World Fantasy Award, and six Lambda Literary Awards. She is also the co-editor of the Bending the Landscape series of anthologies. Her newest novel, Hild, will be published fall 2013. She lives in Seattle with her partner, writer Kelley Eskridge.
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