Desirable Body
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Format: Book
Description: 223 pages ; 20 cm.
A contemporary Frankenstein that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel, couched in luminous, captivitating prose, about a journalist, Cédric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidate for a body transplant, Cédric survives the surgery but has both physical and existential trouble with his recovery and adaptation: encountering his lover with a new body, discovering the life history of his donor, and attempting to understand the mind-body relationship as he lives it.
Series: Margellos world republic of letters book.
Subjects:
Journalists -- Fiction.
Accidents -- Fiction.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction.
Journalists -- Fiction.
Accidents -- Fiction.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780300224368
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Haddad | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
Translation of: Corps désirable.
Translated to English from French.
Translated to English from French.