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You Know You Want This

You Know You Want This

by KristenRoupenian (Author)

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    Hardcover 2019

    $3.45
Synopsis

The truth was that if a woman bit a man in an office environment, there would be a strong assumption that the man had done something to deserve it . . . From the creator of Cat Person - the first short story to go viral - comes You Know You Want This, a compulsive collection about sex, dating and modern life. These are stories of women's lives now. They also happen to be horror stories. In some, women endure the horror. In others, they inflict it. Here are women at work, at home, on dates, at the doctor's, with their families and with their friends. Here are women grappling with desire, punishment, guilt and anger. These are stories that make you feel fascinated but repelled, scared but delighted, revolted but aroused. You Know You Want This shows why Kristen Roupenian is the most audacious new voice in American fiction. Funny, furious, sly and explicit, she takes a long, hard look at the messed-up power dynamic between men and women - and messes it up some more.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 240
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 07 Feb 2019
ISBN 10: 1787331105
ISBN 13: 9781787331105
Book Overview: From the author of the global sensation Cat Person comes You Know You Want This, a compulsive short story collection about sex, dating and modern life that will thrill you before it chills you.

Media Reviews
If you think you know what this collection will be like, you're wrong. These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much -- Carmen Maria Machado
In an age that needs a wrecking ball, You Know You Want This provides one. This is a raucous, visceral page-turner that tunnels into the heart of relationships gone awry, modern-day miscommunications, and other horrors of being human. Not polite. Suffers no fools. Takes no prisoners. Read it. -- Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author
I found the stories exceptionally compelling; I love the way they create a world that is both familiar and deeply unsettling, showing - in strange and surprising ways - the interplay of disgust, fear and desire. Images from the book keep coming back to me: its narratives feel both mythical and completely modern. -- Megan Hunter
These transgressive and darkly electric stories announce the arrival of a bold, new, necessary voice in American short fiction. -- Claire Vaye Watkins
The stories in You Know You Want This are wildly strange and deeply human. When it comes to the secret hurt and twisted desires that lurk in seemingly mundane encounters between men and women, Kristen Roupenian is a super genius. I loved every single word of this freaky, fantastic book. -- Julie Buntin
Author Bio
Kristen Roupenian graduated from Barnard and holds a PhD in African Literature from Harvard. She is a Zell Fellow in the University of Michigan MFA program, and has received numerous awards for her work. She has studied with Laura Kasischke, Jeff Van der Meer and Claire Vaye Watkins. Her short story 'Cat Person' became a viral sensation when it was published by the New Yorker at the end of 2017, dubbed `the most talked-about short story ever'. You Know You Want This is her first book.