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Kick the Latch

Kick the Latch - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kathryn ScanlanPublish date:2022-09-27Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811232005ISBN-10:081123200XUPC:9780811232005Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Westerns, AnimalsSize:7.23 x 4.72 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SC35B61S4K
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.


Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811232005ISBN-10:081123200XUPC:9780811232005Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Westerns, AnimalsSize:7.23 x 4.72 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SC35B61S4K
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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