Fiction. Essays. A welfare check floats down the river, a cowboy spreads the Word of the Lord and crotches tick like clocks: the world of SPARE PARTS is unpredictable, evocative and vividly distorted. Gail Scott's densely textured tales about growing up female in a world where violence lurks just beneath the skin recreate the uncertainty of life. The initial appearence of this book, in 1981, cause a stir at a time when linear narrative was still the MO of radical writing. This expanded and corrected edition adds two new and innovative essays on narrative, "The Virgin Desires" and "Bottoms Up."

"It is essential reading for a generation whose life never quite matched the ideals that were promised to it."—The London Free Press

Author City: MONTREAL, QC CAN

Gail Scott is the author of essays, manifestos, short stories, and novels. Her books include THE OBITUARY, My Paris, HEROINE, and SPARE PARTS PLUS TWO. She teaches at the Université de Montréal.

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