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- Herausgeber: And Other Stories
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean's reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States. Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to the mountains, each tale is a snapshot of the political, racial, and sexual undercurrents roiling contemporary life, and each finds a way into the nerves and blood that pulse beneath the question of how to live a decent life. Here you'll find stolen children living life to the fullest on the run and on the road, soldiers guarding empty frontiers, and rugged individualists brought low by an uncaring nature. You'll find prehistoric beasts rubbing talons with hustlers as well as death machines lurking beneath the bucolic countryside. Here you'll find hatred, friendship, and pitch-black humor all seething in the same stew. Get 'em Young, Treat 'em Tough, Tell 'em Nothing marries the sardonic moral and political explorations of a Flannery O'Connor to the surreal, scuzzy wit of a Denis Johnson. It is a brazen State of the Union for a nation on the edge.
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Praise for Robin McLean andGet ’em Young,Treat ’em Tough,Tell ’em Nothing
“Not since Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son have I read a book of stories that so resonated in my soul. McLean’s prose sings with a fierceness that is ornate and sparse, spiritual and secular, peaceful and violent. These are stories that remind of Annie Proulx, Joy Williams, and Flannery O’Connor: surprising in the fundamental weirdness of mundane life pressed inextricably into the borderlands. The best collection of stories I have read in years.”
christian kiefer
“I challenge you to point to another writer like McLean. She is voracious, and her vision is brutal, yet hilarious. We will see her everywhere. These brilliant tales are so surprisingly original, so strange and moving, so funny, so irreverent, I swallowed them, I ate them whole.”
deb olin unferth
“These stories, they churn and turn with ferocious pace and a brute subject-verb force. McLean is a writer of pure conviction, unafraid of risk, unconcerned with convention, objective but deeply humane, alive to wonder and strangeness. This collection, like her first, is beautiful and harrowing. I’ll say it again and again: Nobody writes like Robin McLean.”
chris bachelder
“Robin McLean has always excelled in narrators who communicate their own self-sufficiency even as they inadvertently reveal the extent to which they’re actually barely holding it together. They live in places where a bed frame and box spring are just a dream. They remind us that they’re still evolving … And yet somehow in the face of all of that, her protagonists summon lift, and generate that tenderness necessary to continue. The results are fictions that unite the personal and the political in ways that we need now more than ever.”
jim shepard
“Deeply engaged with the rural, with people on their way off the grid, Robin McLean’s fiction is at once fantastical and intensely observed. These are stories about human frailty and darkness, shot through with small moments of glory … ”
brian evenson
“Where so many American writers balk at genuine human darkness, Robin McLean steps inside with a poet’s eye and an ill-used gavel she swiped from the decaying desk of some corrupt, abusive judge. The results are gripping, chilling, and far too realistic for the term. These ten modern parables lay bare our species’ manifold predicaments here in the dimming light of imagined futures. An unforgettable book.”
kyle beachy
“Robin McLean writes with a kind of tender violence, her sentences aimed like fire hoses at a burning world. I loved this collection, and its cast of extraordinary characters will haunt my dreams.”
dani shapiro
“I loved these brilliant, atmospheric and original stories – Robin McLean is such an exciting writer, and this is her best so far.”
joanna kavenna
First published in 2022 by And Other Stories Sheffield – London – New Yorkwww.andotherstories.org
Copyright © Robin McLean, 2022
All rights reserved. The right of Robin McLean to be identified as author of this work has been asserted.
ISBN: 9781913505530 eBook ISBN: 9781913505547
Editor: Jeremy M. Davies; Copy-editor: Jane Haxby; Proofreader: Sarah Terry; Typesetting and eBook by Tetragon, London; Cover Design: Anna Morrison
And Other Stories gratefully acknowledge that our work is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
For all the kids— (especially) M, C, S, K, L & E
I shake my two hairy fists at the sky and I let out a howl so unspeakable that the water at my feet turns sudden ice and even I myself am left uneasy.
—Grendel,John Gardner
