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Availability:In StockContributor:Amina CainPublish date:2013-11-01Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dorothy a Publishing ProjectISBN-13:9780984469383ISBN-10:984469389UPC:9780984469383Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Feminist, BuddhistSize:6.90 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCSN9CP5C2
"Amina Cain is a beautiful writer. Like the girl in the rearview mirror in your backseat, quiet, looking out the window half smiling, then not, then glancing at you, curious to her. That is how her thoughts and words make me feel, like clouds hanging with jets, and knowing love is pure." --Thurston Moore

Amina Cain's Creature brings together short fictions set in the space between action and reflection, edging at times toward the quiet and contemplative, at other times toward the grotesque or unsettling. Like the women in Jane Bowles's work, Cain's narrators seem always slightly displaced in the midst of their own experiences, carefully observing the effects of themselves on their surroundings and of their surroundings on themselves. Other literary precursors might include Raymond Carver and John Cage, with Carver's lucid prose and instinct for the potency of small gestures and Cage's ability to return the modern world to elementary principles. These stories offer not just a unique voice but a unique narrative space, a distinct and dramatic rendering of being-in-the-world.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dorothy a Publishing ProjectISBN-13:9780984469383ISBN-10:984469389UPC:9780984469383Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Feminist, BuddhistSize:6.90 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCSN9CP5C2
Amina Cain is the author of two collections of stories, Creature and I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues, 2009), as well as a novel, Indelicacy (FSG, 2020). Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Granta, The Paris Review Daily, n+1, BOMB, Full Stop, and The Believer Logger. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project

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