Certain American States by Catherine Lacey
Certain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey's characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss and longing. A grieving wife gives away the shirts her husband has left behind. A flirtatious widow takes a honeymooning couple to see her husband's grave. A businessman working for a shadowy organization known as 'The Company', checks-in to a room in a strange and remarkable hotel.
With a spare but poetically concentrated style, Catherine Lacey vividly captures the addled, bombed-out, wryly fuzzy perspectives of her lost and drifting charactersThese are stories of mystery and brooding, wintry beauty -- Colin Barrett, author of * Young Skins *
Lacey is playful and smart, one of a generation of American women who seem entirely unafraid -- ‘Best Summer Books’ selected by Anne Enright * Guardian *
Profoundly playful and piercingly good... The prose is full of mathematical pleasures. You don't have to read them, but you really should -- Anne Enright * Guardian *
Exquisite... Completely beautiful -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *
Spectacular... Very funny, very bleak... Darkly affecting -- Michael LaPointe * TLS *
Often very funny... Certain American States has a sureness of touch and the unmistakable stamp of knowing exactly what it's doing -- Selected by Sam Leith as a book of the year * Spectator *
Lacey is playful and smart, one of a generation of American women who seem entirely unafraid -- ‘Best Summer Books’ selected by Anne Enright * Guardian *
Profoundly playful and piercingly good... The prose is full of mathematical pleasures. You don't have to read them, but you really should -- Anne Enright * Guardian *
Exquisite... Completely beautiful -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *
Spectacular... Very funny, very bleak... Darkly affecting -- Michael LaPointe * TLS *
Often very funny... Certain American States has a sureness of touch and the unmistakable stamp of knowing exactly what it's doing -- Selected by Sam Leith as a book of the year * Spectator *
Catherine Lacey is the author of THE ANSWERS and NOBODY IS EVER MISSING. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch & German. She was born in Mississippi and is based in Chicago. CERTAIN AMERICAN STATES is her first story collection.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783782208 |
| ISBN 10 | 178378220X |
| Title | Certain American States |
| Author | Catherine Lacey |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2018-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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