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Battleborn
by Watkins, Claire Vaye
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1594488258
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488252
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Riverhead Books, 2012-08-01. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Uncorrected Proof with minor shelf wear to binding & edges of text block. Text and images unmarked.
Synopsis
Winner of the 2012 Story Prize Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" fiction writer of 2012 Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it. Her characters orbit around the region's vast spaces, winning redemption despite - and often because of - the hardship and violence they endure. The arrival of a foreigner transforms the exchange of eroticism and emotion at a prostitution ranch. A prospecting hermit discovers the limits of his rugged individualism when he tries to rescue an abused teenager. Decades after she led her best friend into a degrading encounter in a Vegas hotel room, a woman feels the aftershock. Most bravely of all, Watkins takes on – and reinvents – her own troubled legacy in a story that emerges from the mayhem and destruction of Helter Skelter. Arcing from the sweeping and sublime to the minute and personal, from Gold Rush to ghost town to desert to brothel, the collection echoes not only in its title but also in its fierce, undefeated spirit the motto of her home state.
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- Seller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SPIROinsORN
- Title
- Battleborn
- Author
- Watkins, Claire Vaye
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof
- ISBN 10
- 1594488258
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488252
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012-08-01
- Size
- 5x1x8
- X weight
- 15 oz
Terms of Sale
Chaparral Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Chaparral Books
Biblio member since 2015
Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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- Uncorrected Proof
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