Ex Utero

By Laurie Foos

Book Overview

The unholy love-child of Kafka and Erica Jong, Laurie Foos presents a satiric parable about female sexuality, infertility, and today's media frenzy. In this absurdist tale, Rita carelessly misplaces her uterus--somewhere at the mall. "Wonderfully deranged and stunning . . . . A landmark."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566890306
• ISBN13: 9781566890304
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Hilarious

This is a brilliant little book filled with killer lines and laugh-out-loud scenes. Foos is hilarious. I just finished her new novel and it is equally funny with more depth to the character. The symbolism is rampant but without being obstuse. It's a wacky ride, highly recommended.

Funny, revealing, surreal---Definitely worth reading

This book was so funny I couldn't put it down--perhaps because I identified with the main character, a childess woman heading into the end of her fertile years. The book actually changed me--which is a rare and wonderful reading experience--especially if done while laughing out loud. Despite the constant humor (ala Thomas Pynchon), the motivations of the each character's odd behavior(s) seemed very real and revealing to me especially when juxtaposed against lost uteruses, sealed vaginas that have "closed up shop" and a world full of erections. It was interesting to see how people depend on each other in a whirlwind of craziness. The book isn't expensive and it's a small investment of your time too--big font on small pages and it starts out with a humorous bang immediately. DO IT! I'm following up by reading F/32, by Eurydice. It is also amazing and impacting.

Ex Utero

There are so many tidy examples of stereotypical points of view about sexuality that fit into this short book. It's a cozy fit, just like Rita's womb sitting next to her in the booth at the diner.It's a relief to laugh at common opinions that in normal life feel like sharp barbs.Thank you Ms. Foos.

halarious, campy, yet clever

Ex Utero is halarious, plain and simple. To me, the book carried a very strong campy feel, reminding me of early john waters films. It's clever, outrageous, moving, perverse, touching, strange but human, and manages to address the way people look at female sexuality and what female sexuality is. If your looking for something bizzare and fun, but with an important message, than this book should be on your reading list!