Kick the Latch: Kathryn Scanlan - Softcover

Scanlan, Kathryn

 
9781914198250: Kick the Latch: Kathryn Scanlan
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1914198255 ISBN 13: 9781914198250
Verlag: Daunt Books Publishing, 2023

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Based on transcribed interviews with a former racehorse trainer from Iowa, this is fiction that investigates form, authenticity and speech. A patient and attentive exercise in radical listening, whittled, shaped and reimagined to tell the story of one womans fine, hard, pungent life at the racetrack in 100 nuggets.

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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.

Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack – the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner’s 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 Reznikoff’s Testimony. As Scanlan puts it, ‘I wanted to preserve – amplify, exaggerate – Sonia’s 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.

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Verlag
Daunt Books Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1914198255
ISBN 13 
9781914198250
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
167
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