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# The Wilds

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Review: There are two kinds of fantastic disruption in Julia Elliott's freshman collection of short stories, The Wilds - - in the first, the banal surfaces of everyday life swell and metastasize into strange encounters with the miraculous and possibly terrible; in the second, Elliott pushes and prods a weird but none-too-alien premise to its absurd and often hilarious conclusion. Stories like "Limbs," "Regeneration at Mukti," "The Caveman Diet," and "Love Machine" belong to the latter category. These tales float somewhere between social satire and comedy - - and remind me a lot of George Saunders' early fabulations or more evolved Donald Barthelme confections. To be honest, while entertaining, these are less successful stories. The first category, the eruption of weirdness from within the grain of contemporary American life, is where Elliott really shines. These stories - -like "Rapture," "Feral, " the curiously truncated "Organisms," and the collection's title story - - work because Elliott communicates her sur-reailties in a voice that brings the grotesque poetics of Southern Gothic into contact with a world - - of Facebook, Garfield, and Hobby Lobby franchises - - dedicated to erasing mystery and danger. Wild dogs swarm suburbia in "Feral" and draw the story's narrator into stranger realms of freedom. A mutated bacillus in "Organisms" makes teenage alienation into a real and mysterious epidemic. In "Rapture," a levitating, grotesque, old-timey Baptist grandmother upends an innocent slumber party and offers the narrator a seductive glimpse into worlds beyond the bourgeois comforts of the Dixie City Fashion Mall and Neil Diamond "double shots" on AM radio. "Rapture" is one of the most charming tales in the collection. The other is the title story, "The Wilds," where first love blossoms amidst garden parties, adolescent pustules, and incipient lycanthropy. Elliott's is just the kind imagination that's missing in so much American fiction today - - odd, rich, compelling, fiercely individual and beautiful. Word on the street is that Elliott is preparing her first novel - - and I'm hoping she sticks to the twisted, overgrown, diabolically delicious and dangerously dappled path of stories like "Rapture" and "The Wilds."
Review: Ich tue mich schwer damit, die Faszination, die die Stories auf mich ausüben, genau begründen zu können. Zunächst ist zu sagen, dass Julia Elliott rein sprachlich schon eine großartige Erzählerin ist, wortgewaltig, witzig, verstörend, mit einem einzigartigen Tonfall - alles, was man von Erzählern erwartet und doch so selten geboten bekommt. Ihre Texte sind funkelnde Kristalle, die aus verschiedenen Winkeln betrachtet in allen Farben des Spektrums blitzen. Vielseitig und vielschichtig, erzeugen sie eine intensive Spannung beim Lesen, eine Faszination, der ich mich nicht entziehen kann. Bei einem solchen Erzählungsband läßt sich nicht in wenigen Worten sagen, worum es im Kern geht. Es scheint mir vor allem um die Entfremdung des Menschen zu sich selbst, zu seinesgleichen und zur Natur zu gehen. Darum, wie dünn die feine Membran der Kultur ist, die uns von unserer animalischen Herkunft und unserer Umwelt trennt, darum, wie schnell Risse entstehen, die uns wieder "verwildern" lassen. Erotik und Tod einerseits, Bio-Kost, fortgeschrittene Medizin und Selbsterfahrungskurse andererseits: die Texte bewegen sich im Spannungsgeflecht widersprüchlicher Daseinsbedingungen, man mag sie als Southern Gothic, Magischen Realismus, surreale Feen-Märchen oder auch anders bezeichnen. Ihre Stärke, egal wie man die Stories genretechnisch eintüten möchte, besteht in der Spannung zwischen der lupenreinen, exakten, zugleich kühlen und sinnlichen Sprache und den Abgründen, die sich unter der schillernden Oberfläche verbergen. Form und Inhalt passen perfekt zueinander, und wahrscheinlich ist genau das der Grund, warum dieses Buch so großartig ist.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 1,483,509 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 32,934 in Short Stories (Books) 69,529 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) 72,401 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (119) |
| Dimensions  | 12.7 x 2.67 x 19.69 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 1935639927 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1935639923 |
| Item weight  | 408 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 288 pages |
| Publication date  | 14 Oct. 2014 |
| Publisher  | Tin House Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by G***S on 7 March 2015*

There are two kinds of fantastic disruption in Julia Elliott's freshman collection of short stories, The Wilds - - in the first, the banal surfaces of everyday life swell and metastasize into strange encounters with the miraculous and possibly terrible; in the second, Elliott pushes and prods a weird but none-too-alien premise to its absurd and often hilarious conclusion. Stories like "Limbs," "Regeneration at Mukti," "The Caveman Diet," and "Love Machine" belong to the latter category. These tales float somewhere between social satire and comedy - - and remind me a lot of George Saunders' early fabulations or more evolved Donald Barthelme confections. To be honest, while entertaining, these are less successful stories. The first category, the eruption of weirdness from within the grain of contemporary American life, is where Elliott really shines. These stories - -like "Rapture," "Feral, " the curiously truncated "Organisms," and the collection's title story - - work because Elliott communicates her sur-reailties in a voice that brings the grotesque poetics of Southern Gothic into contact with a world - - of Facebook, Garfield, and Hobby Lobby franchises - - dedicated to erasing mystery and danger. Wild dogs swarm suburbia in "Feral" and draw the story's narrator into stranger realms of freedom. A mutated bacillus in "Organisms" makes teenage alienation into a real and mysterious epidemic. In "Rapture," a levitating, grotesque, old-timey Baptist grandmother upends an innocent slumber party and offers the narrator a seductive glimpse into worlds beyond the bourgeois comforts of the Dixie City Fashion Mall and Neil Diamond "double shots" on AM radio. "Rapture" is one of the most charming tales in the collection. The other is the title story, "The Wilds," where first love blossoms amidst garden parties, adolescent pustules, and incipient lycanthropy. Elliott's is just the kind imagination that's missing in so much American fiction today - - odd, rich, compelling, fiercely individual and beautiful. Word on the street is that Elliott is preparing her first novel - - and I'm hoping she sticks to the twisted, overgrown, diabolically delicious and dangerously dappled path of stories like "Rapture" and "The Wilds."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by M***N on 14 October 2015*

Ich tue mich schwer damit, die Faszination, die die Stories auf mich ausüben, genau begründen zu können. Zunächst ist zu sagen, dass Julia Elliott rein sprachlich schon eine großartige Erzählerin ist, wortgewaltig, witzig, verstörend, mit einem einzigartigen Tonfall - alles, was man von Erzählern erwartet und doch so selten geboten bekommt. Ihre Texte sind funkelnde Kristalle, die aus verschiedenen Winkeln betrachtet in allen Farben des Spektrums blitzen. Vielseitig und vielschichtig, erzeugen sie eine intensive Spannung beim Lesen, eine Faszination, der ich mich nicht entziehen kann. Bei einem solchen Erzählungsband läßt sich nicht in wenigen Worten sagen, worum es im Kern geht. Es scheint mir vor allem um die Entfremdung des Menschen zu sich selbst, zu seinesgleichen und zur Natur zu gehen. Darum, wie dünn die feine Membran der Kultur ist, die uns von unserer animalischen Herkunft und unserer Umwelt trennt, darum, wie schnell Risse entstehen, die uns wieder "verwildern" lassen. Erotik und Tod einerseits, Bio-Kost, fortgeschrittene Medizin und Selbsterfahrungskurse andererseits: die Texte bewegen sich im Spannungsgeflecht widersprüchlicher Daseinsbedingungen, man mag sie als Southern Gothic, Magischen Realismus, surreale Feen-Märchen oder auch anders bezeichnen. Ihre Stärke, egal wie man die Stories genretechnisch eintüten möchte, besteht in der Spannung zwischen der lupenreinen, exakten, zugleich kühlen und sinnlichen Sprache und den Abgründen, die sich unter der schillernden Oberfläche verbergen. Form und Inhalt passen perfekt zueinander, und wahrscheinlich ist genau das der Grund, warum dieses Buch so großartig ist.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by S***I on 1 July 2019*

I found this book on a "weird" fiction list and decided to pick it up in anticipation of a very long air plane flight. It certainly passed the time. I was impressed by the stories, which have a subtle weirdness to them. There is a great deal of complexity and ambiguity in Julia Elliott's work that leaves you speculating on the characters and the imaginative environments she constructs. The story themes range in content (sci-fi, magical realism and literary fiction with a slightly distorted element). If you are looking for straight up genre fiction (horror, "hard" sci-fi or fantasy), I imagine you will be let down by this collection. However, Elliott's work is most entertaining in the ways it defies genre conventions and plays with them (although not all the stories in this volume are successful at this, and getting through the first story "Rapture" took some patience). For those who like literary fiction that is slightly left-of-center, you will probably find these stories entertaining.

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