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"Cut Away" is a novel that expertly entwines the lives of three characters struggling to understand the meaning of identity and its seeming mutability. Orbiting around the mystery of a missing teenager, a trio of narrators each tells her story in turn. Alexandra is a transgendered woman who has refused surgery and abandoned Los Angeles for a trailer at the desolate Salton Sea. Asa, the mother of the runaway, wants her grief-ridden face completely transformed. Eleanor, a plastic surgeon, is fascinated with surfaces and wonders whether visual harmony has the power to change what lies beneath. In a culture obsessed with transforming the body, do the incarnate fictions we create have the power to hide or reveal the truth of who we really are? This is a question that Catherine Kirkwood approaches in a stunning debut novel of desire, self-loathing, and the revisionary madness of our modern world.

Book details

• Full title: Cut Away
• Author: Catherine Kirkwood
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• EAN: 9780980040791
• ISBN: 0980040795
• ID: 11599650
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Weight: 181 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2010

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