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008    171221s2018    mnu    e      000 1 eng   
010    2017056244 
015    GBB893806|2bnb 
020    9781566895156 (softcover) 
020    1566895154 (softcover) 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dDLC|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 
041 1  eng|hspa 
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092    |fF|aLARRAQUY 
100 1  Larraquy, Roque,|d1975-|eauthor. 
245 10 Comemadre /|cRoque Larraquy ; translated by Heather 
       Cleary. 
250    First English-language edition. 
264  1 Minneapolis :|bCoffee House Press,|c2018. 
300    129 pages ;|c20 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "First published by Editorial Entropía as La Comemadre, © 
       2010" -- ECIP galley. 
520    "1907: In a sanatorium in Temperley, on the outskirts of 
       Buenos Aires, Doctor Quintana falls in love with Menéndez,
       the head nurse--of whom he knows almost nothing, not even 
       her first name. Motivated by this love--which he shares 
       with his colleagues--by money, and by the promise of 
       transcendence, he carries out a cruel and misguided 
       experiment that investigates the threshold between life 
       and death. The premise is that a human head stays alive 
       and conscious for nine seconds after being severed from 
       the body. 2009: A celebrated artist and ex-child prodigy 
       decides to "bring the monster alive," converting his own 
       body, and the bodies of those he loves, into art objects. 
       The halves of the book are held together by a shared 
       interest in the human pursuit of transcendence through 
       bodily intervention, first as it relates to the scientific
       or pseudo-medical and the positivism that marked the 
       beginning of the twentieth century, then by way of a 
       radical and absurd artistic vision." --|cProvided by 
       publisher 
650  0 Physicians|vFiction. 
650  0 Cruelty|vFiction. 
655  7 Dystopias.|2gsafd 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd 
700 1  Cleary, Heather,|etranslator. 
730 0  Comemadre.|lEnglish.