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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Rion Amilcar ScottPublish date:2019-08-20Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9781631495380ISBN-10:1631495380UPC:9781631495380Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:9.40 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCG4R7PREK

Established by the leaders of the country's only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, Cross River still evokes the fierce rhythms of its founding. In lyrical prose and singular dialect, a saga beats forward that echoes the fables carried down for generations--like the screecher birds who swoop down for their periodic sacrifice, and the water women who lure men to wet deaths.

Among its residents--wildly spanning decades, perspectives, and species--are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be God's last son; Tyrone, a ruthless PhD candidate, whose dissertation about a childhood game ignites mayhem in the neighboring, once-segregated town of Port Yooga; and Jim, an all-too-obedient robot who serves his Master. As the book builds to its finish with Special Topics in Loneliness Studies, a fully-realized novella, two unhinged professors grapple with hugely different ambitions, and the reader comes to appreciate the intricacy of the world Scott has created--one where fantasy and reality are eternally at war.

Contemporary and essential, The World Doesn't Require You is a "leap into a blazing new level of brilliance" (Lauren Groff) that affirms Rion Amilcar Scott as a writer whose storytelling gifts the world very much requires.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9781631495380ISBN-10:1631495380UPC:9781631495380Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:9.40 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCG4R7PREK
Scott, Rion Amilcar: - Rion Amilcar Scott's first book, Insurrections, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. His work has been published in the Kenyon Review, the Rumpus, PANK, and Confrontation, among others. He lives and writes in Maryland.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation

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