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The dominant animal : stories / Kathryn Scanlan.

by Scanlan, Kathryn, 1980-

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MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

9780374538293 (trade pbk.)

ix, 146 p. ; 20 cm.

The first whiffs of spring -- The candidate -- Beef hearts trimmed of fat, braised -- Playhouse -- Happy wife, happy life -- Florida is for lovers -- Men of the woods -- Small pink female -- Power tools -- SHH -- Mother's teeth -- The baby -- Please -- Bait-and-switch -- The imprecation -- Dear Sirs -- Colonial revival -- The locket -- The hungry valley -- Victorian wedding portrait -- BJ -- Coolly, bluely -- Line -- Derland -- The dominant animal -- Salad days -- Live a little -- Design for a carpet -- The wine manager and I -- Ta-Da! -- Yet you turn to the man -- Vagrants -- Now this -- Dear Mary -- The old mill -- Fable -- Master framer -- The rescued man -- Lemons -- The poker.

"In The Dominant Animal--Kathryn Scanlan's adventurous, unsettling debut collection--compression is key. Sentences have been relentlessly trimmed, tuned, and teased for maximum impact, and a ferocious attention to rhythm and sound results in a palpable pulse of excitability and distress. The nature of love is questioned at a golf course, a flower shop, an all-you-can-eat buffet. The clay head of a man is bought and displayed as a trophy. Interior life manifests on the physical plane, where characters--human and animal--eat and breathe, provoke and injure one another. With exquisite control, Scanlan moves from expansive moods and fine afternoons to unease and violence--and also from deliberate and generative ambiguity to shocking, revelatory exactitude. Disturbances accrue as the collection progresses. How often the conclusions open--rather than tie--up. How they twist alertly"--Provided by publisher.

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