The Wilds, Julia Elliott
The Wilds, Julia Elliott
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The Wilds
Stories

Author: Julia Elliott

Narrator: Susan Bennett, Lori Gardner

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/24/2015


Synopsis

At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and begins to explore her environment with the assistance of strap-on robot legs. At a deluxe medical spa on a nameless Caribbean island, a middle-aged woman hopes to revitalize her fading youth with grotesque rejuvenating therapies that combine cutting-edge medical technologies with holistic approaches and the pseudo-religious dogma of Zen-infused self-help. And in a rinky-dink mill town, an adolescent girl is unexpectedly inspired by the ravings and miraculous levitation of her fundamentalist friend's weird grandmother. These are only a few of the scenarios readers encounter in Julia Elliott's debut collection, The Wilds. In these genre-bending stories, teetering between the ridiculous and the sublime, Elliott's language-driven fiction uses outlandish tropes to capture poignant moments in her humble characters' lives. Without abandoning the tenets of classic storytelling, Elliott revels in lush lyricism, dark humor, and experimental play.

Reviews

I don't get it... This is a collection of Southern Gothic tales written by Julia Elliott. I really just don't get it. When I think of Gothic I don't think of aliens and nanobots. Maybe I have it all wrong but those are more sci-fi and futuristic type elements. Some of these stories would even borderli......more

Se trata del debut literario de esta autora que encuentra en el sur profundo de EEUU el escenario perfecto para 11 relatos realmente difíciles de clasificar dentro de un solo género. Sí, hay elementos de terror y góticos, pero también de ciencia ficción, de relato costumbrista, de distopía, de cuent......more

Goodreads review by Keith

I’m going to rip off something from Matt Bell’s Facebook page for my review of The Wilds By Julia Elliot: “It's easier for people to let go if the world is strange. In a realist story, it sometimes feels like you're reading someone else's story. In a certain kind of non-realist story, the slight unfa......more