Last Days of the Dog-men - Couverture rigide

Watson, Brad

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0297818937 ISBN 13 : 9780297818939

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997

Synopsis

An extraordinary and unusual collection of short stories, all set amoung suburban and rural poor of the American South, and all concerning dog-owners and their rather fuller relationships with their dogs than with each other.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"His people and dogs? those wonderful dogs!? come alive with honest, thrumming energy." ? The New York Times Book ReviewWinner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. In each of these "weird and wonderful stories" (Boston Globe), Brad Watson writes about people and dogs: dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as unwitting victims of human passions; and people responding to dogs as missing parts of themselves. "Elegant and elegiac, beautifully pitched to the human ear, yet resoundingly felt in our animal hearts" (New York Newsday), Watson's vibrant prose captures the animal crannies of the human personality? yearning for freedom, mourning the loss of something wild, drawn to human connection but also to thoughtless abandon and savagery without judgment. Pinckney Benedict praises Watson's writing as "crisp as a morning in deer season, rife with spirited good humor and high intelligence," and Fred Chappell calls his stories "strong and true to the place they come from." This powerful debut collection marks Brad Watson's introduction into "a distinguished [Southern] literary heritage, from Faulkner to Larry Brown to Barry Hannah to Richard Ford" (The State, Columbia, South Carolina).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0297818937
• ISBN 13: 9780297818939
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 146
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible