Título: The Dominant Animal: Stories
Autor: Kathryn Scanlan
Sinopse: 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.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Dominant Animal: Stories”, de Kathryn Scanlan, publicado pela editora MCD x FSG Originals, em 2020 e com 160 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: MCD x FSG Originals
Páginas: 160
Ano: 2020-04-07
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0374538298
ISBN13: 9780374538293
