MACHADO LIBROS 2011

Bodybuilder Russell Morgan, aka Muscle, transforms Dorothy Turnipseed, a rough-around-the-edges secretary from the southern town of Waycross, Georgia, into the dazzling Shereel Dupont, a paragon of physical perfection and the leading contender for the Miss Cosmos title.

But even though she controls everything related to her body, she cannot control her eccentric family, and indeed, one day before the pageant, her worst nightmare comes true: the entire Turnipseed clan shows up at the hotel uninvited…

In Body, Harry Crews portrays a universe of irreconcilable elements, a parade of the doomed, the freaks, the misfits, and the outcasts, revealing with wit and tenderness the beauty of the grotesque and the grotesqueness of beauty.