Product Description: From D. H. Lawrence to Philip Roth, acclaimed male writers have depicted sex from the perspective of female characters. Now, women writers from Aimee Bender to Jennifer Egan engage in provocative fictional cross-dressing, exploring sexuality from the male point of view...read more
Product Description: In the spirit of her critically acclaimed story collection Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, Cris Mazza has completed a new collection titled Trickle-Down Timeline. The eleven stories and three micro-fictions in Trickle-Down Timeline are focused glimpses into individual lives subtly influenced by the political and social milieu of the 1980s...read more
9781597091336 | 1 edition (Red Hen Pr, February 15, 2009), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In the spirit of her critically acclaimed story collection Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?
Labeled 'disabled' by her family after manifesting epilepsy in childhood, Tam burns out after thirty years of strict vigilance and relocates to Maine, where she learns about the fates of two women whose tragic lives mirror her own. Original.
9781933368849 | Soft Skull Pr, September 28, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Labeled 'disabled' by her family after manifesting epilepsy in childhood, Tam burns out after thirty years of strict vigilance and relocates to Maine, where she learns about the fates of two women whose tragic lives mirror her own.
Product Description: Told in a broken shorthand voice, Mazza's language is acute, evoking a place where the patients, the caregivers, and the system are all disabled. Teri and Cleo are minimum-wage nurse-aides at a state ward for severely retarded and physically handicapped children...read more
9781573661218 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, March 15, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Told in a broken shorthand voice, Mazza's language is acute, evoking a place where the patients, the caregivers, and the system are all disabled.
Product Description: Fiction. In the 80's a young woman advertises her services as a model to photographers; she discovers their weaknesses, seduces them, then extorts them by claiming to be under-age. In the 90's a 40-something man is married to a doctor who only views him as a sex object...read more
Product Description: Cris Mazza delivers a spirited rebuttal to pop-culture stereotypes about growing up female in Southern California. Coming of age in the 1970s and ’80s, Mazza’s memories aren’t about surfing, cheerleading or riding in convertibles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780872864221 | City Lights Books, May 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Cris Mazza delivers a spirited rebuttal to pop-culture stereotypes about growing up female in Southern California.
Product Description: Cris Mazza's fiction has been called experimental, and stylistically it is, in the same way that Chekov's prose can be called experimental. Like the Russian author, Mazza uses an impressionistic technique to create characters so unusual, they become emblems for whole orders of social ills...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9781573660921 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, January 15, 2001, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Cris Mazza's fiction has been called experimental, and stylistically it is, in the same way that Chekov's prose can be called experimental.
9780932511331 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, January 1, 1991, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A dark comedy that undercuts that shaky compromise of sexual desires.
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9781573660419 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 30, 1998, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A dark comedy that undercuts that shaky compromise of sexual desires.
9780932511348 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: These stories convey a powerful, convincing sense of the bewilderment and excitement of sexual desires.
Product Description: While in many ways reaffirming the mythic dimension of being on the road already romanticized in American pop and folk culture, "Revelation Countdown" also subtly undermines that view. These stories project onto the open road not the nirvana of personal freedom but rather a type of freedom more closely resembling loss of control...read more
9781573660761 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, March 1, 1993, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: While in many ways reaffirming the mythic dimension of being on the road already romanticized in American pop and folk culture, "Revelation Countdown" also subtly undermines that view.
Product Description: More postfeminist short fiction by the author of Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? and editor of our popular Chick-Lit anthologies. This new collection of stories explores problems and situations caused only by the ordinary people who suffer through them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9781573660334 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: More postfeminist short fiction by the author of Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?
9781566890557 | Coffee House Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When six people lose their ability to communicate with other people, some of them turn to their dogs for comfort
9781566890199 | Coffee House Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Photographer Connie Zamora's photos have a habit of getting her into trouble, especially when she takes a new job with a theater group
9780932511737 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, January 1, 1993, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Stories deal with the freedom of travel and the effects of travel on personality and relationships
Phelan, a sculptor, and Tara, the painter he lives with, are engaged in a strange relationship--she can remember events from his life, but not from her own, and he can remember the inspiration for her paintings, but she cannot remember painting them
9780918273963 | Coffee House Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Phelan, a sculptor, and Tara, the painter he lives with, are engaged in a strange relationship--she can remember events from his life, but not from her own, and he can remember the inspiration for her paintings, but she cannot remember painting them
Product Description: In a striking first collection of stories, Cris Mazza brings a startling vision to the familiar terrain of intimate relationships. The eleven stories in Animal Acts describe characters navigating an unsteady course through the turbulence of sexial desire...read more
9780932511157 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, July 1, 1989, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Eleven stories describing characters navigating an unsteady course through the turbulence of sexual desire.
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9780932511164 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, July 1, 1989, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: In a striking first collection of stories, Cris Mazza brings a startling vision to the familiar terrain of intimate relationships.