TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scanlan,Kathryn
TI  - The dominant animal: stories 
SN  - 9781911547563
AV  - PS3619.C263 .A6 2020
U1  - 813.6 SCA 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - DB Originals
KW  - Flash fiction
KW  - American
KW  - Short stories,
N2  - "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. Disturbances accrue as the collection progresses. How often the conclusions open--rather than tie--up. How they twist alertly. No mercy, a character says--and these stories are merciless and strange and absolutely masterful."--
ER  -