The dominant animal
Scanlan, Kathryn, 1980-2020
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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.
Main title:
The dominant animal / Kathryn Scanlan.
Author:
Scanlan, Kathryn, 1980-, author
Imprint:
London : Daunt Books, 2020.
Collation:
256 pages
ISBN:
9781911547563 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2249377