Claire Vaye Watkins
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Description
"The much-anticipated first novel from a Story Prize-winning "5 Under 35" fiction writer. In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins's story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that harnesses the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut so arresting to a love story set in a devastatingly imagined near future. Unrelenting...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"From "the most captivating voice to come out of the West since Annie Proulx" (Vogue), the furious, hilarious, soul-rending story of one woman's reckoning with marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and seethe funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband, Theo, and their young daughter, Claire, a writer, gets on...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Battleborn marks the introduction of an exceptionally powerful voice, and a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting. In these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins takes on the mythology of the American West and fearlessly reimagines it. The collection echoes not only in its title but in its fierce, undefeated spirit the motto of her home state, Nevada.
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