Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Times A 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.
Title: The Dominant Animal Stories
Author(s): Scanlan Kathryn
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374538293
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/7/2020
Category: Short Stories