Displaying 1 of 1 2020 Title: The dominant animal : stories / Kathryn Scanlan. Author: Scanlan, Kathryn, 1980- author. Format: Book Publisher, Date: New York : MCD x FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2020] ©2020 Description: 146 pages ; 19 cm Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Flash fiction, American. Short stories, American. Genre: Short stories. Flash fiction. Other Title: Short stories. Selections ISBN: 9780374538293 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 0 # Local items in: 0 # System items in: 2 Reserve Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Availability' section below. Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Suggestions and more 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. - (McMillan Palgrave) Large Cover Image Librarian's View Map It Displaying 1 of 1
