Bodybuilder Russell Morgan aka Muscle transforms Dorothy Turnipseed, a rugged secretary from the southern town of Waycross, Georgia, into the dazzling Shereel Dupont, paragon of physical perfection and leading contender for the Miss Cosmos title. But although she controls everything that has to do with her body, she is not able to control her bizarre family and, in fact, one day before the contest she sees her worst nightmare materialize: the entire Turnipseed turn up at the hotel. uninvited...

In BODY, Harry Crews portrays a universe of irreconcilable elements, a parade of the doomed to fail, the freaks, the misfits and the disaffected, sarcastically and tenderly revealing the beauty of the grotesque and the grotesque of beauty.