her other mouths

by Lidia Yuknavitch

a collection of short fictions. language shoots up and through the body in these fictions of desire inwhich women bleed, bruise, and burn their way beyond culturally sanctioned girl slots. wicked love... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965666506
• ISBN13: 9780965666503
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: House of Bones Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

You have to check this out

I was assigned this book for an introductory literature class and I have to admit that I was totally shocked, shocked in the way the most powerful literature, I imagine, has always shocked. Needless to say, I loved every page of it, and mostly because I have never read anything so honest and so real. This book spoke to me, and that doesn't happen often. I've turned all my friends onto it.

the real fight club

yuknavitch's words on the page are blood on a canvas. her mouths challenge & unnerve the reader, like seconds before a fight, you cannot imagine the ropes and corners to come--language in the form of an operatic violence that leaves you wanting more, tenderly. her other mouths is an exceptional invention with more heart than most can handle.

like an ice cube lodged in your throat

like a dead body on the side of the road - to look or not to look - the beauty of the wound - to touch or not to touch - to taste or just imagine - the cool of the blade on the neck - this is the book for our time.

cut into my voice and left a scar

lidia blows up language. bold, raw to the bone. i am blown away. her other mouths is an eruption of passion, drive and cuts you deeply with tender frankness and harsh truths. this is the best fiction: that which moves.

attitude

sharp shooter. hoarse, discordant, unrepenting, shuddering, involuntary, taut, fearlessly performed. this one should have never ended...