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"Crews cracks open a southern-fried terrain that teems with heretofore unidentified life.... It's time the word got out: Harry Crews kicks ass."—The Village Voice Literary SupplementIn Body Harry Crews reveals the beauty in the grotesque and the grotesque in the beautiful, mixing the hard and the soft, the brutal and the kind, the drive for physical perfection and the compromise of real love. Bodybuilder-trainer Russell "Muscle" Morgan transforms Dorothy Turnipseed, a secretary from Waycross, Georgia, into Shereel Dupont, a paragon of physical perfection and leading contender in the Ms. Cosmos contest—a being for whom winning is everything. But, though she can control everything about her body, she can't control her family. The corpulent, redneck Turnipseeds arrive uninvited at the contest and upset the careful balance that keeps Shereel's world—the high-tension world of bodybuilding— intact. Hilariously funny, gritty, powerful, and profound. Body is Crews's best novel yet."Raunchy and perverse and wildly funny..."—Washington Post Book World"Uproarious.... It stands with his best works."—Los Angeles Times Book Review"Savagely funny and deadly serious.... [Crews's] characters, disti

Who reads BODY: A Novel?

Author

Crews, Harry

Publisher

Touchstone

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671758523

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (890 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14