Alligator by Ryan, David

Alligator

In Alligator, David Ryan's experiments in language and form produce 23 stark, lyrical stories that explore the...
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Alligator by Ryan, David

Alligator

$16.95

Alligator

$16.95
Author: David Ryan
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In Alligator, David Ryan's experiments in language and form produce 23 stark, lyrical stories that explore the human condition. Kaleidoscopic, surprising, and occasionally shocking, Ryan's liminal realism shifts between incantatory parables and a hard-scrabble, fractured reality, rooted in the deep, visceral logic of memory, wild impulse, and dream. Alligator's stories collect desire, dislocation of family, love, and estrangement into a brutalist architecture-where occasional sharp eruptions of chaos co-exist with hope and grace.



Author: David Ryan
Publisher: C4g Books
Published: 11/30/2025
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9798990727502


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/29/2025
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2025

About the Author
Ryan, David: - Author of the forthcoming Alligator (C4G Books) and winner of the 2022 and 2023 O. Henry Prize For Short Fiction, David Ryan's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Soft Union, Alaska Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Harvard Review, New England Review, The Common, The Threepenny Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Fence, Cincinnati Review, The Florida Review, The Hopkins Review, Puerto del Sol, the Potomac Review, Pinch, Tin House, Esquire, BOMB, and elsewhere.He is the author of the story collection Animals in Motion: Stories (Roundabout Press) and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano: Bookmarked (Ig). A recent Artistic Excellence Fellow with the Connecticut Office of the Arts, he teaches in the writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and in New England College's Low Residency MFA.

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