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The Dominant Animal
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Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Southwest Review, and Publishers Weekly [The stories] are short, but their mood and imagery are lasting, and reflective of brutal truths of the commerce of human civilization . . . chilling, finely tuned pieces on power and survival. --Los Angeles TimesA collection of innovative and ambitious short stories from a visionary young literary artist In The Dominant Animal--Kathryn Scanlan's adventurous, unsettling debut collection--compression is key. Sent…
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- Author: Kathryn Scanlan
- Publisher: MCD X Fsg Originals
- Pages: 144
- ISBN-10: 0374538298
- ISBN-13: 9780374538293
- Format: 12.7 x 18.8 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Southwest Review, and Publishers Weekly
[The stories] are short, but their mood and imagery are lasting, and reflective of brutal truths of the commerce of human civilization . . . chilling, finely tuned pieces on power and survival. --Los Angeles TimesA collection of innovative and ambitious short stories from a visionary young literary artist In The Dominant Animal--Kathryn Scanlan's adventurous, unsettling debut collection--compression is key. Sentences have been relentlessly trimmed, tuned, and teased for maximum impact, and a ferocious attention to rhythm and sound results in a palpable pulse of excitability and distress. The nature of love is questioned at a golf course, a flower shop, an all-you-can-eat buffet. The clay head of a man is bought and displayed as a trophy. Interior life manifests on the physical plane, where characters--human and animal--eat and breathe, provoke and injure one another. With exquisite control, Scanlan moves from expansive moods and fine afternoons to unease and violence--and also from deliberate and generative ambiguity to shocking, revelatory exactitude. Disturbances accrue as the collection progresses. How often the conclusions open--rather than tie--up. How they twist alertly. No mercy, a character says--and these stories are merciless and strange and absolutely masterful.
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- Author: Kathryn Scanlan
- Publisher: MCD X Fsg Originals
- Pages: 144
- ISBN-10: 0374538298
- ISBN-13: 9780374538293
- Format: 12.7 x 18.8 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Southwest Review, and Publishers Weekly
[The stories] are short, but their mood and imagery are lasting, and reflective of brutal truths of the commerce of human civilization . . . chilling, finely tuned pieces on power and survival. --Los Angeles TimesA collection of innovative and ambitious short stories from a visionary young literary artist In The Dominant Animal--Kathryn Scanlan's adventurous, unsettling debut collection--compression is key. Sentences have been relentlessly trimmed, tuned, and teased for maximum impact, and a ferocious attention to rhythm and sound results in a palpable pulse of excitability and distress. The nature of love is questioned at a golf course, a flower shop, an all-you-can-eat buffet. The clay head of a man is bought and displayed as a trophy. Interior life manifests on the physical plane, where characters--human and animal--eat and breathe, provoke and injure one another. With exquisite control, Scanlan moves from expansive moods and fine afternoons to unease and violence--and also from deliberate and generative ambiguity to shocking, revelatory exactitude. Disturbances accrue as the collection progresses. How often the conclusions open--rather than tie--up. How they twist alertly. No mercy, a character says--and these stories are merciless and strange and absolutely masterful.
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