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Kick The Latch-Kathryn Scanlan-VG
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“New Directions, 2022, Paperback. Very good condition overall. No notable defects.”
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Numéro de l'objet eBay :134898274647
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Très bon
- Remarques du vendeur
- “New Directions, 2022, Paperback. Very good condition overall. No notable defects.”
- ISBN
- 9780811232005
- Book Title
- Kick the Latch
- Item Length
- 7.3 in
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary
- Item Width
- 4.7 in
- Item Weight
- 4.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
À propos de ce produit
Product Information
About one woman's fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch-with its ruthless concision and artful mysteries-is lightning in a bottle
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
081123200x
ISBN-13
9780811232005
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9057248620
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kick the Latch
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.3 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
4.7 in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3619.C263k53 2022
Reviews
Performs the trick of turning a life, with its practicalities and speed, into art, and does so with particular charm, will, and intensity., I thought I knew everything there was to know about the track, by living it, by writing it, until I read Kathryn Scanlan's dazzling novel, Kick the Latch--which is another thing altogether and an extraordinarily accurate picture of a life based on the love of racehorses., Brimming with life...Refuses to follow the paths we expect...Although there's much tenderness...the overall toughness of the narration--sinewy, matter-of-fact, neither glib nor maudlin--seldom fails to jolt the reader...In its emotional impact, [Scanlan's] artfully artless minimalism most recalls Lucia Berlin...if we're left wanting more, we're also left wondering what more we could possibly want from a book so stuffed with life., Kick the Latch is a triumph, whittling Sonia's life down to 96 sparsely worded pages that serve as a masterclass in how less can be more., Kathryn Scanlan's name sits beside Lydia Davis and Mary Gaitskill in that great pantheon of writers who pack so much into so little, achieving in a handful of pages what some writers couldn't achieve in hundreds . . . [Kick the Latch is] a vivid and idiosyncratic profile of a life that straddles fact and fiction., Wonderful...an unforgettable, tough, direct voice, brilliantly captured...I'd never imagined I'd read and love a book about a midwest horse trainer., Kick the Latch was one of the first books I read this year and it's still a contender for my Book of the Year. A tightly controlled, moving, brutal, tender, powerhouse of a book. Kathryn Scanlan is a genius., A chiseled little gem...about a horse trainer called Sonia and told in her unforgettably downbeat voice. Such poise and economy--I can't remember a novel about work that's impressed me so., Kathryn Scanlan has performed a magical act of empathic ventriloquy in Kick the Latch. This immediate, engrossing immersion in another life and world, so personally and passionately told, is compulsively readable., Superb, episodic story of horse-racing, told in vignettes of violence, poverty and community. Both niche and precise in the revelation of an ordinary life (Johnson's Train Dreams, or Seethaler's A Whole Life) with Lydia Davis' distillation., A joy from start to finish, and I can't think of anything else quite like it...Kick the Latch is an extraordinary act of portraiture. Tender, kind, and told with measured honesty, it gripped me entirely from the first page to the last., I have been following Kathryn Scanlan's original voice for years. In her new venture--an unusually intimate, clear-eyed portrait of a tough and engaging woman conveyed in revelatory vignettes--every word is essential., All the exhilarating pace and tension of a high-stakes derby...Masterfully precise...Every sentence seems to pull behind it an invisible weight of information and emotion., "Scanlan writes about ordinary life in extraordinary ways by compacting it radically, like pressurizing carbon into diamonds. When Sonia describes the force absorbed by a single hoof in every stride of a horse's gallop--"a thousand pounds of pressure held up by that one thin leg"--she could also be describing Scanlan's syntax: compact phrases holding so much pressure. The work is structured by recurring themes: the violence and pleasures of intimacy, the balm and exhaustion of hard work, our bonds with animals and with our own animal natures--those surges of desire and aggression that unseat and rearrange us.", Fantastic...Fact-based vignettes in the fictional novel form, with shades of Willy Vlautin and Denis Johnson. Either way, pure poetry. It already features like a miniature classic., To pick up this book is to kick the latch and be rushed away: to feel the rhythm of a life told in moments, chasing an uncertain kind of win...The encounters are shared in a steady series of short vignettes, like bar-room tales settled down into a sharp-edged prose poetry...After decades of one foot in front of another, the reader is left bereft at the finish line with only thing clear. It's a beautiful run., Careful research and deep empathy combine in this portrait of the unforgettable horse trainer Sonia. The life story you didn't know you needed, told in a spare, matter-of-fact narration that cannot conceal the passion and tenacity of a life hard-lived and success hard-won., "Extraordinary...Sonia's voice is unsentimental and humane, alert to absurdity and human frailty...Scanlan is nowhere, and yet everywhere, in the shaping and patterning, in the rendering of a voice so distinctive and rich and true. Zola said that art is a corner of creation seen through atemperament. Well, we're doubly blessed here, in having the sensibilities of both Sonia and Scanlan. Let's be done with this awful "ordinary lives" talk, as though there is any such thing. Sonia is extraordinary and many other people would be perceived as such too, had they Scanlan to listen and make sense, artistically, of their days.", Kathryn Scanlan's words will mark you. Her work is sharp, deliberate, and poised--rife with subtly peculiar language., A genuine read-in-one-sitting experience, and a genuinely unforgettable one. Beautifully written, heartbreaking and joyous, this is one of the books of the year, if not the book of the year, already., Kick the Latch is pure exhilaration. No one works with fineness, with exactitude, with the beating heart of fiction and of life, quite like Kathryn Scanlan., Spare and powerful...precise and unromantic...Sonia's voice is distinct, her no-nonsense attitude a product of her lifestyle. Filtered through Scanlan, who writes as though with a scalpel, every mark precise and deep, it accrues an intellectual power too., A deeply enjoyable book, atmospheric with fear and shock, threat and disorientation. Through the power of her vision, Scanlan takes hold of the world and gives it to the reader with an intensity that is, paradoxically, both strange and familiar . . . Scanlan requires that the reader remain sharply vigilant: a feeling that lingers long after finishing the book and will, perhaps, be part of what draws people back., Rings true for a reason...Poignant without becoming maudlin...Most of all, perhaps, I was moved by the portrayal of one woman's dedication to her craft., Scanlan is a master of the compressed anecdote and, pulled together, these finely-tuned vignettes provide raw and bracing snapshots of a life lived day to day, job to job., Reviews of Kathryn Scanlan's The Dominant Animal: Their mood and imagery are lasting, and reflective of brutal truths of the commerce of human civilization . . . chilling, finely tuned pieces on power and survival., It will live far longer in the memory than most holidays...Scanlan's harsh, funny, beautifully sad novel is unlike any other I've read this year--and twice as good., With this book, Kathryn Scanlan is telling us three things: life is short, it's worth paying attention, and she's one hell of a writer., "Kick the Latch, a short, absorbing novel about a racetrack horse trainer...is informed by a series of conversations with the real Sonia, who Scanlan met through her mother, and it has a blunt, vivid idiom that renders gore and beauty with similar clarity. That idiom is informed by Sonia's own voice: "I wanted to preserve -- amplify, exaggerate -- Sonia's idiosyncratic speech," Scanlan says. The book feels like an interview, and it's impressive what Scanlan does within that frame, especially with animals that serve as proxies for humans in their embodiment of power, independence, and humiliation.", Lean and mean: the young American author's audacious deployment of lacunae is a measure of her singular artistry. These are sentences written in stone--to be read out loud or learned by heart., Scanlan's inventive novel documents a woman's hardscrabble yet jubilant life and her dedication to working with racehorses. Shaped from interview transcripts with a real-life trainer named Sonia (no last name given), Scanlan's vignettes carry readers across the arc of Sonia's life...but the most beautiful moments are quiet ones, in which Sonia processes the choices she and others have made, and of the consequences she faces in a field dominated by men. With this sharp and lovely tribute to a singular woman, Scanlan continues to impress., I was absolutely blown away...It's so much more than a skilled act of ventriloquism, it is a finely wrought work of art that takes one person's life and expands it to create something wondrous and universal. The pages I read seemed to capture all that is vital to human existence.
Lccn
2022-018693
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Dewey Edition
23
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