Dominant Animal

Name: Dominant Animal
Brand: St. Martins Press
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By Kathryn Scanlan

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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 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.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 160
Publisher:: St. Martins Press
Publication Date:: 2020-04-07
ISBN / EAN:: 9780374538293
Weight:: 118 g
Dimensions:: 125/188/13 cm

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