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You Know You Want This

You Know You Want This 1

by Kristen Roupenian
Hardback
Publication Date: 05/02/2019
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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.

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.

ISBN:
9781787331105
9781787331105
Category:
Horror & ghost stories
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
05-02-2019
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
222x144x25mm
Weight:
0.36kg

"These transgressive and darkly electric stories announce the arrival of a bold, new, necessary voice in American short fiction."
Claire Vaye Watkins

"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

"Kristen Roupenian isn’t just an uncannily great writer, she also knows things about the human psyche - things that I always supposed I would learn at some point, but never did. Some of these things are about men’s minds in particular and I’m pretty sure she’s right. The world has made a lot more sense since reading this book."
Miranda July

"It’s only a matter of time before you find yourself thumping someone’s dinner table vigorously as you discuss [You Know You Want This]...Roupenian’s latest tales are sexy, chilling and disturbingly gruesome in finest fairytale tradition...Think Delta of Venus meets Angela Carter meets Bridesmaids."
Harriet Walker, The Times

"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

Kristen Roupenian

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'. 

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I loved this collection of strange stories. Something really quirky and off but relatable at the same time. If you are into the dark and messed up then this is the book for you.

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