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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