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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-10-11 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: Picador In steel-tipped prose. Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by fighting dogs. prizefighters. sex addicts. and gamblers. In his title story. Davidson introduces an afflicted boxer whose hand never properly heals after a bone is broken. The fighters career descends to bouts that have less to do with sport than with survival: no referee. no rules. not even gloves. In A Mean Utility we enter an even more desperate arena: dogfights where Rottweilers. pit bulls. and Dobermans fight each other to the death.Davidsons stories are small monuments to the telling detail. The hostility of his fictional universe is tempered by the humanity he invests in his characters and by his subtle and very moving observations of their motivations. He shares with Chuck Palahniuk the uncanny ability to compel ou...
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Rust and Bone conjures a savage world of prizefighters, gamblers and sex addicts; dogs fight to the death and bare-knuckled men fight for survival on the most extreme margins.
And yet these gritty stories are tempered by gentleness, the quiet understanding in the most intimate relationships. A whale trainer’s accident, a boy’s life endangered – where human vulnerability is so close to the surface, the humanity of these characters heralds redemption and hope.
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‘Smudges the line between comedy and horror, cruelty and mercy. Remarkable’ Chuck Palahniuk
‘These big, riveting stories are the best I’ve read in a long time from a young writer’ Bret Easton Ellis
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1447226240
- ISBN 13 9781447226246
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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