Corps désirable. English

Desirable body / Hubert Haddad ; translated from the French by Alyson Waters.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

©2018

223 pages ; 20 cm.

A contemporary Frankenstein that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel, couched in luminous, captivitating prose, about a journalist, Cédric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidate for a body transplant, Cédric survives the surgery but has both physical and existential trouble with his recovery and adaptation: encountering his lover with a new body, discovering the life history of his donor, and attempting to understand the mind-body relationship as he lives it.

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December 10, 2018