Large Animals: Stories
by Jess Arndt /
2017 / English / EPUB
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magazine Best Book of 2017“Jess Arndt’s
“Jess Arndt’sLarge Animals
Large Animals is wildly original, even as
it joins in with the classics of loaded, outlaw literature.
Acerbic, ecstatic, hilarious, psychedelic, and affecting in turn,
this is an electric debut.” ―Maggie Nelson, National Book Critics
Circle Award–winning author of
is wildly original, even as
it joins in with the classics of loaded, outlaw literature.
Acerbic, ecstatic, hilarious, psychedelic, and affecting in turn,
this is an electric debut.” ―Maggie Nelson, National Book Critics
Circle Award–winning author ofThe Argonauts
The Argonauts
Jess Arndt's striking debut collection confronts what it means to
have a body. Boldly straddling the line between the imagined and
the real, the masculine and the feminine, the knowable and the
impossible, these twelve stories are an exhilarating and
profoundly original expression of voice. In “Jeff,” Lily Tomlin
confuses Jess for Jeff, instigating a dark and hilarious identity
crisis. In “Together,” a couple battles a mysterious STD that
slowly undoes their relationship, while outside a ferocious weed
colonizes their urban garden. And in “Contrails,” a character on
the precipice of a seismic change goes on a tour of past lovers,
confronting their own reluctance to move on.
Jess Arndt's striking debut collection confronts what it means to
have a body. Boldly straddling the line between the imagined and
the real, the masculine and the feminine, the knowable and the
impossible, these twelve stories are an exhilarating and
profoundly original expression of voice. In “Jeff,” Lily Tomlin
confuses Jess for Jeff, instigating a dark and hilarious identity
crisis. In “Together,” a couple battles a mysterious STD that
slowly undoes their relationship, while outside a ferocious weed
colonizes their urban garden. And in “Contrails,” a character on
the precipice of a seismic change goes on a tour of past lovers,
confronting their own reluctance to move on.
Arndt’s subjects are canny observers even while they remain
dangerously blind to their own truest impulses. Often unnamed,
these narrators challenge the limits of language―collectively,
their voices create a transgressive new formal space that makes
room for the queer, the nonconforming, the undefined. And yet,
while they crave connection, love, and understanding, they are
constantly at risk of destroying themselves.
Arndt’s subjects are canny observers even while they remain
dangerously blind to their own truest impulses. Often unnamed,
these narrators challenge the limits of language―collectively,
their voices create a transgressive new formal space that makes
room for the queer, the nonconforming, the undefined. And yet,
while they crave connection, love, and understanding, they are
constantly at risk of destroying themselves.Large Animals
Large Animals
pitches toward the heart, pushing at all our most tender
parts―our sex organs, our geography, our words, and the tendons
and nerves of our culture.
pitches toward the heart, pushing at all our most tender
parts―our sex organs, our geography, our words, and the tendons
and nerves of our culture.