Kick the Latch

Kathryn Scanlan's Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman's life at the racetrack--the flat...
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Author: Kathryn Scanlan
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Kick the Latch by Scanlan, Kathryn

Kick the Latch

$27.80

Kick the Latch

$27.80
Author: Kathryn Scanlan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Kathryn Scanlan's Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman's life at the racetrack--the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner's circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the "particular language" of "grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards, pony people, hotwalkers, everybody"--with economy and integrity.

Based on transcribed interviews with Sonia, a horse trainer, the novel investigates form and authenticity in a feat of synthesis reminiscent of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony. As Scanlan puts it, "I wanted to preserve--amplify, exaggerate--Sonia's idiosyncratic speech, her bluntness, her flair as a storyteller. I arrived at what you could call a composite portrait of a self." Whittled down with a fiercely singular artistry, Kick the Latch bangs out of the starting gate and carries the reader on a careening joyride around the inside track.



Author: Kathryn Scanlan
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.23h x 4.72w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780811232005

About the Author
Scanlan, Kathryn: - Kathryn Scanlan received a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for "exceptional accomplishment" in literature. Her story collection The Dominant Animal was named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Southwest Review, and Publishers Weekly, and her first book, Aug 9--Fog, was praised in a starred review by Publishers Weekly as "an outstanding debut, profound and moving: Scanlan's portrait of an everywoman feels entirely new." She lives in Los Angeles.

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