The Dominant Animal: Stories

The Dominant Animal: Stories - Paperback

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The Dominant Animal: Stories - Paperback

The Dominant Animal: Stories - Paperback

by Kathryn Scanlan
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Book Overview

by Kathryn Scanlan (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Kathryn Scanlan is the author of Aug 9--Fog. Her work has been published in NOON, Fence, Granta, and The Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.4 x 5 IN
Publication Date: April 07, 2020
ISBN9780374538293
Author Kathryn Scanlan
PublisherMCD X Fsg Originals
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages160
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Kathryn Scanlan is the author of Aug 9--Fog, The Dominant Animal, and Kick the Latch. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Review Award, the Gordon Burn Prize, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from MacDowell, the Jan Michalski Foundation, and the European Capital of Culture in Chemnitz, Germany. Her work has been published in Granta and The Paris Review, and she is a regular contributor to the journal NOON, edited by Diane Williams. Originally from Iowa, she lives in Los Angeles.

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