{"product_id":"near-flesh-by-katherine-dunn-9780374602352","title":"Near Flesh","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman invests in a series of sex robots to get her off and comes to terms with the limitations—and real threat—of automated companionship. A knowing young student pursues an affair with an older man, the poet in residence at the university where she studies writing, and weighs the benefits and costs of their arrangement. A mother moves to a farm with her family and must come to terms with the violence simmering beneath her skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNear Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e is the first and only collection of short fiction by Katherine Dunn, the author of the bestselling novel \u003cem\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/em\u003e. These nineteen stories are, like Dunn's entire body of work, attuned to the spit and grit of tough living. They pulse with yearning for a more prosperous life, for sexual satisfaction, to escape abusive husbands and the disappointments of convention. A better life, for these mostly female protagonists, seems always just out of reach. In \u003cem\u003eNear Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e, Dunn explores the struggle of women to live on their own terms, and the desire to relish—rather than squash—what distinguishes a person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46837242101996,"sku":"9780374602352","price":60.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/0d735d3d36045ff9d11564f2077f9c37.jpg?v=1758606559","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/near-flesh-by-katherine-dunn-9780374602352","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}