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Battleborn - Stories (Paperback) Loot Price: R515
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Battleborn - Stories (Paperback): Claire Vaye Watkins

Battleborn - Stories (Paperback)

Claire Vaye Watkins

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Loot Price R515 Discovery Miles 5 150

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Winner of the 2012 Story Prize
Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" fiction writer of 2012
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.

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Imprint: Riverhead Books,U.S.
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2013
First published: August 2013
Authors: Claire Vaye Watkins
Dimensions: 203 x 130 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-145-0
Categories: Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns
Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
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LSN: 1-59463-145-X
Barcode: 9781594631450

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