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Article: OUTER SUBURBIA; Julia Slavin's Stories Chart Some Very Unfamiliar Territory
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 15, 1999
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A few years ago, Julia Slavin developed a huge crush on her
teenage lawn boy. When he arrived, tan and buff, to cut her grass in
upper Northwest Washington, she would wriggle into a miniskirt, blast
Jane's Addiction on the stereo and freshen her glossy pink lipstick.
She counted the days between cuttings and chided her lawn for not
growing fast enough. This unrequited experience of lust and longing
morphed into the first story in her new, awkwardly titled collection,
"The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club." Except, in
the book, the woman swallows the lawn boy. Whole. For a few weeks
they have a relationship of constant sex, a few romantic dinners,
fights and making-up. And ...
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