Name: Battleborn: Stories
SKU: 25430129
Price: 647.00 TWD
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Author: Claire Vaye Watkins
ISBN: 9781594631450

Type

Physical Book

Author

Claire Vaye Watkins

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13x2.3 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

159463145x

ISBN13

9781594631450

Synopsis "Battleborn: Stories "

The extraordinary debut collection from the Guggenheim Award-winning author of the forthcoming Gold Fame Citrus Winner of the 2012 Story Prize Recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2013 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Named one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 fiction writers of 2012 Winner of New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award NPR Best Short Story Collections of 2012 A Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Time Out New York Best Book of the year, and more . . . Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it. Her characters orbit around the region's vast spaces, winning redemption despite - and often because of - the hardship and violence they endure. The arrival of a foreigner transforms the exchange of eroticism and emotion at a prostitution ranch. A prospecting hermit discovers the limits of his rugged individualism when he tries to rescue an abused teenager. Decades after she led her best friend into a degrading encounter in a Vegas hotel room, a woman feels the aftershock. Most bravely of all, Watkins takes on - and reinvents - her own troubled legacy in a story that emerges from the mayhem and destruction of Helter Skelter. Arcing from the sweeping and sublime to the minute and personal, from Gold Rush to ghost town to desert to brothel, the collection echoes not only in its title but also in its fierce, undefeated spirit the motto of her home state.

Claire Vaye Watkins

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Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of the novel Gold Fame Citrus and the short story collection Battleborn, winner of the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other awards. Watkins, honored by the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35, is a professor at the University of California in Irvine and lives in Twenty-nine Palms, California.

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