{"product_id":"the-welldressed-wound-isbn-9781584351740","title":"The Well-Dressed Wound","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gleeful grotesquerie and savage satire, featuring Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln and the Devil, along with Civil War dead, deconstructed couture, and gay ghosts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Well-Dressed Wound\u003c\/i\u003e is Derek McCormack's play script “séance”: a fashion show by the dead for the living. In the depths of the Civil War, in a theater in P. T. Barnum's American Museum on Broadway, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln participate in a staged spiritualistic rite. But the medium conducting them has invited along another being: the Devil, disguised as twentieth-century French fashionista Martin Margiela (aka “King Faggot”). What follows is the most fiendish runway show ever mounted, complete with war dead, deconstructed couture, and gay ghosts infected with all manner of infectious agents, including oozy AIDS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile his previous fictions have explored the darker corners of country music, high fashion, and camp, \u003ci\u003eThe Well-Dressed Wound\u003c\/i\u003e is McCormack's most radical work yet, occultishly evoking the evil-twin muses of transgressive literature, Kathy Acker and Pierre Guyotat. The creation thus conjured is a gleeful grotesquerie, a savage satire not so much of fashion as of death, a work that, as Bruce Hainley observes in \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, puts “the 'pus' back in opus.” Here death and life spin on a viral double helix of contamination and couture, blistering and bandages, history and hysteria, semen and seams. “Being dead is so very now,” Hainley opines. “This tiny tome (a time bomb, a tomb) is to die for and radically alive.”\u003c\/p\u003e...we need more writers like Derek McCormack, whose bizarre, wild novel achieves the same effect as any good joke: it disrupts and surprises us, and colours our worlds a little differently.—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e—Derek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Show that Smells\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Well-Dressed Wound\u003c\/i\u003e (Semiotext(e)).","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233765634277,"sku":"NP9781584351740","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781584351740.jpg?v=1767742179","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-welldressed-wound-isbn-9781584351740","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}