Grotesque, funny, and dazzlingly told, Shelley Jackson’s first novel is an imaginative and touching portrait of two lives in a cleft world yearning for www.doorway.rus: Grotesque, funny, and dazzlingly told, Shelley Jackson’s first novel is an imaginative and touching portrait of two lives in a cleft world yearning for wholeness/5(25). Shelley Jackson, “Themself/Half Life” Me (Nora) and my twin sister (Blanche) are a two-headed woman. I am a twofer--what they used to call a Siamese twin, though I prefer "conjoined." When our heads collide, a distant, confused echo of her pain overtakes and loses itself in mine. The singletons are anxious to understand us.
Half Life by Shelley Jackson. A novel in which our own nuclear testing has created a population of conjoined twins who then are taken on as a minority cause politically. It's actually less of a political novel then it sounds and is much more about identity and memory and dollhouses. There are some astonishingly good descriptions and moments and. Shelley Jackson is the author of the short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the hypertext novel Patchwork Girl, several children's books, and "Skin," a story published in tattoos on the skin of more than two thousand www.doorway.ru lives in Brooklyn, New York. Half Life by Shelley Jackson available in Trade Paperback on www.doorway.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. "Ingenious, sensual, gleeful It demands of its readers only imagination, and rewards.
Half Life is the debut novel of American writer and artist Shelley Jackson. The novel presupposes an alternate history in which the atomic bomb resulted in a genetic preponderance of conjoined twins, who eventually become a minority subculture. Overview. Half Life is Shelley Jackson’s debut novel, a work of twisted fiction with an equally convoluted style. The story is set in an alternate history where nuclear fallout caused a “Boom” that saw the births of many Siamese twins, with Nora and Blanche as our protagonists. Half Life is twisty and vampy and campy, grotesque, picaresque, droll, and dazzling." Themself (Why you're a conjoined twin.) Nora and Blanche are a two-headed woman in a looking-glass world where conjoined twins have their own subculture, slang, and self-help books. Nora wants no part of it.
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