03084cam a2200289 4500 412079397 TxAuBib 20200204120000.0 191002s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019041775 9781635574296 HRD 24.00 1635574293 HRD 24.00 TxAuBib Flattery, Nicole. Short stories Selections. Show them a good time [BOOK] : short stories / Nicole Flattery. London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2019. pages cm. First published in 2019 in the Republic of Ireland by The Stinging Fly. Show them a good time -- Sweet talk -- Hump -- Abortion, a love story -- Track -- Parrot -- You're going to forget me before I forget you -- Not the end yet. "A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that women inhabit and the parts that they must play. A sense of otherworldly menace is at work in the fiction of Nicole Flattery, but the threats are all too familiar. SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME tells the stories of women slotted away into restrictive roles: the celebrity's girlfriend, the widower's second wife, the lecherous professor's student, the corporate employee. And yet, the genius of Flattery's characters is toblithely demolish the boundaries of these limited and limiting social types with immense complexity and caustic intelligence. Nicole Flattery's women are too ferociously mordant, too painfully funny to remain in their places. In this fiercely original and blazingly brilliant debut, Flattery likewise deconstructs the conventions of genre to serve up strange realities: In Not the End Yet, Flattery probes the hilarious and wrenching ambivalence of Internet dating as the apocalypse nears; in Sweet Talk, themysterious disappearance of a number of local women sets the scene for a young girl to confront the dangerous uncertainties of her own sexuality; in this collection's center piece, Abortion, A Love Story, two college students in a dystopian campus reconfigure the perilous stories of their bodies in a fraught academic culture to offer a subversive, alarming, and wickedly funny play that takes over their own offstage lives. And yet, however surreal or richly imagined the setting, Flattery always shows us these strange worlds from startlingly unexpected angles, through an unforgettable cast of brutally honest, darkly hilarious women and girls. Like the stories of Mary Gaitskill, Miranda July, Lorrie Moore, Joy Williams, and Ottessa Moshfegh, SHOW THEM A GOODTIME is the work of a profoundly resonant and revelatory literary voice - at once spiky, humane, achingly hilarious-- that is sure to echo through the literary culture for decades to come"-- Provided by publisher. 20200204. Women Sexual behavior Fiction. Women Fiction. Sexism Fiction. Short stories.