Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins

Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins

The stories in Battleborn all unfold in Watkins's home state of Nevada, from down south in Nye County and Las Vegas, to Reno, Lake Tahoe, and the Blackrock Desert, the site of Burning Man. We are introduced to a very specific small town America, to those homes and lives off the highway - the ones travellers and writers usually drive past on their way to somewhere else. While the locations are ordinary, the characters and Watkins' telling of their lives are anything but. There is the man who finds a cache of letters, pills and a photograph abandoned by the side of the road and as he writes to the man he imagines left them behind, reveals moving truths about himself ('The Last Thing We Need'); the man in late middle age who finds a troubled, pregnant teen dying in the desert and, through her, begins to dream of regaining the family he lost ('Man-O-War'); the brothers caught in the early days of the gold rush ('The Diggings'); and the sisters unable to comfort each other following their mother's suicide ('Graceland'). And there is the first story ('Ghosts, Cowboys'), a semi-autobiographical account of a troubled - and famous - family history.

CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS is a Nevadan and a Presidential Fellow at Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in Hobart, the Hopkins Review, and Ploughshares.

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ISBN 13	9781847084873
ISBN 10	1847084877
Title	Battleborn
Author	Claire Vaye Watkins
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Granta Books
Year published	2013-08-01
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Winner of The Story Prize 2013 (UK), Winner of American Arts and Letters Prize 2013 (UK), Winner of New York Public Library Young Lion's Award 2013 (UK), Short-listed for Frank O'Connor Short Stories Award 2013 (UK), Short-listed for PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize 2013 (UK), Long-listed for Dylan Thomas Prize 2013 (UK)
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