Kick the Latch
Pocketbok. Faber & Faber. 2023. 170 sidor.
Nyskick. Förlagsny och oläst pocket. Språk engelska.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781914198250
- Titel
- Kick the Latch
- Författare
- Scanlan, Kathryn
- Förlag
- Faber & Faber
- Utgivningsår
- 2023
- Omfång
- 170 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 132 x 197 mm Ryggbredd 12 mm
- Vikt
- 210 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 'A tough, beautiful novel. - GuardianAbout one womans fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch with its ruthless concision and artful mysteries is lightning in a bottle.Kathryn Scanlans Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one womans life at the racetrack the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winners circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the particular language of grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards, pony people, hotwalkers, everybody with economy and integrity.Based on transcribed interviews with Sonia, a horse trainer, the novel investigates form and authenticity in a feat of synthesis reminiscent of Charles Reznikoffs Testimony. As Scanlan puts it, I wanted to preserve amplify, exaggerate Sonias idiosyncratic speech, her bluntness, her flair as a storyteller. I arrived at what you could call a composite portrait of a self.Whittled down with a fiercely singular artistry, Kick the Latch bangs out of the starting gate and carries the reader on a careening joyride around the inside track.A revelation in its unadorned, unromantic, plain power. - Andrew McMillan'A series of taut, electrifying vignettes . . . by turns exultant and brutal. - LA Review of Books
Faber & Faber
9781914198250
