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Riverhead
August 2012
On Sale: August 2, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 1594488258
EAN: 9781594488252
Kindle: B0085DP2LQ
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Fiction Family Life
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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