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Boyle, Kay

 
9781782279464: The Crazy Hunter: Kay Boyle (Pushkin Press Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1782279466 ISBN 13: 9781782279464
Verlag: Pushkin Press Classics, 2024

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At 17, Nan wants to leave the family farm and go to study. Caught between her powerful mother and yielding, drunken father, she absorbs the tensions of their divided household and dotes on her new gelding, a gift from her father. When a sudden accident leaves the horse blind, Nan's mother insists he must be put down, initiating a power struggle that brings the family's conflicts explosively to the fore. First published in 1938, The Crazy Hunter is an electrifying short novel - sharply observed, psychologically astute and morally complex. Written in lush, entrancing prose, it is the finest work by a significant modernist writer.

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Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was an American writer, educator and political activist. Following her youth and education in Philadelphia, Cincinnati and New York, Boyle moved to France in 1923, where she would remain until 1941. She became an important figure in the literary scene there, publishing in small magazines alongside Hemingway, Joyce and Stein. She was twice awarded Guggenheim fellowships and won two O. Henry Awards for best short story of the year. On returning to the US, Boyle continued writing and worked as a foreign correspondent for the New Yorker. A victim of 1950s McCarthyism, Boyle was blacklisted from most major magazines, and in 1963 she took a teaching job in San Francisco. She became increasingly involved in political activism and was once imprisoned alongside Joan Baez for a protest at the height of the Vietnam War. A fierce advocate for justice and equality until the end of her life, Boyle died in California aged 90.

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A rediscovered Modernist gem: a lushly written short novel of roiling family tension on an English farm, back in print for the first time in decades.

Caught between her powerful mother and yielding, drunken father, seventeen-year-old Nan longs to leave the family farm. When her father gifts her a magnificent gelding, Nan relishes her small freedom - until the horse is blinded in an accident, and Nan's mother insists he be put down. A battle over the animal's fate begins, in which old family tensions threaten to explode.

First published in 1938, The Crazy Hunter is the finest work by a significant Modernist writer and a key figure 1920s and 30s Paris literary scene. Bristling with tension, it is an electrifying short novel - psychologically astute, morally complex and written with heady intensity.

'Few writers have been more skilled at conveying an underlying emotional violence imperfectly concealed' Margaret Atwood

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Verlag
Pushkin Press Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1782279466
ISBN 13 
9781782279464
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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