Creature - Couverture souple

Cain, Amina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0984469389 ISBN 13 : 9780984469383

Editeur : Dorothy, a publishing project, 2013

Synopsis

“Amina Cain is a beautiful writer. Like the girl in the rearview mirror in your backseat, quiet, looking out the window half smiling, then not, then glancing at you, curious to her. That is how her thoughts and words make me feel, like clouds hanging with jets, and knowing love is pure.” —Thurston Moore

Amina Cain’s Creature brings together short fictions set in the space between action and reflection, edging at times toward the quiet and contemplative, at other times toward the grotesque or unsettling. Like the women in Jane Bowles’s work, Cain’s narrators seem always slightly displaced in the midst of their own experiences, carefully observing the effects of themselves on their surroundings and of their surroundings on themselves. Other literary precursors might include Raymond Carver and John Cage, with Carver’s lucid prose and instinct for the potency of small gestures and Cage’s ability to return the modern world to elementary principles. These stories offer not just a unique voice but a unique narrative space, a distinct and dramatic rendering of being-in-the-world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Amina Cain is the author of two collections of stories, Creature and I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues, 2009), as well as a novel, Indelicacy (FSG, 2020). Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Granta, The Paris Review Daily, n+1, BOMB, Full Stop, and The Believer Logger. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dorothy, a publishing project
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0984469389
• ISBN 13: 9780984469383
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible