Filthy Animals
Riverhead Books,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-593-42020-1 (ISBN)
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BRANDON TAYLOR IS:
A powerhouse. Newsweek
An extraordinary cartographer. Esquire
A striking new voice with a vital perspective. Harper s Bazaar
A brilliant writer. Garth Greenwell
Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Enterntainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O: The Oprah Magazine, Harper s Bazaar, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, Vulture, Thrillist, The Week, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, The Millions, and Paperback Paris
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction from the author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life
In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty.
One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways. With Filthy Animals he renews and expands on the promise made in Real Life, training his precise and unsentimental gaze on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others. Psychologically taut and quietly devastating, Filthy Animals is a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.
lt;b>Brandon Taylor is the author of the acclaimed novel Real Life, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop in fiction.
Potluck
Lionel had been out of the hospital for only a few days when the potluck invitation came.
The host lived in the first-floor apartment of a Near East Side duplex separated by a tiny cul-de-sac from the wide-bottomed cottages that fronted Lake Monona.
Noise of an undifferentiated party variety drifted out into the deep blue cold, meeting Lionel under the sunroom window, where he had stopped to peer inside. He felt powerfully anonymous out there in the dark, looking in on all of them. That he did not recognize anyone, apart from the host, was at once a comfort and a warning.
A rectangle of pale light unfurled down the stairs as the host pressed the door open on screeching hinges.
"Shit, it's cold out here. You walk all this way?"
Lionel climbed the stairs and tried to arrange his stiff face into a friendly expression, the effort of which made his scalp tingle. He had walked only part of the way, about ten minutes in all. The bus had dropped him on the other side of Orton Park. When the host realized that Lionel wasn't going to answer, he said, "Well, you're right on time."
"I didn't have a chance to go to the store-I just got back," Lionel said. The several pairs of shoes in the front entry hall indicated to him that this was not the small gathering he had thought it would be. It also indicated that he was not right on time, but he knew that already.
"Long trip?" The host wrapped his arm around Lionel's lower back and pulled at him until they were very close, at the threshold of the apartment, but not yet inside. "Good?"
"Couple weeks," Lionel said. "Sorry for not being in touch more."
"It's a busy time," the host said in a way that wasn't entirely not passive aggressive. Lionel turned his head a little out of reflexive guilt, and the host's dry lips grazed the corner of his mouth.
"Thank you," Lionel said.
"It's good to see you. Let's talk tonight. Catch up. It's been forever."
"Yeah, let's."
A few of the guests sat around on mismatched chairs and on the floor, holding plates of damp vegetables and grains. The improvised nature of the gathering diluted the strangeness he felt standing there alone, because although he was clearly a latecomer, the rest of them didn't seem to belong to one another in the way that friends sometimes could. There was no operating logic to their association that he could see. They were all awkward, anxious strangers in the host's living room. He waved to them, and they waved back. Their having seen him and his having seen them moved him.
Lionel felt alive, in the world.
The larger, noisier contingent of guests assembled their food in the kitchen. Lionel waited his turn, watching as they pirouetted and collided. They touched the smalls of each other's backs and shoulders. Men and women. They hugged and kissed and pressed against each other. Looped arms and hooked thumbs into each other's pockets. They poured wine and spooned things onto each other's plates. The loud whack of plastic trays and the tinkle of ice, the hiss of seltzer. As they finished and squeezed by Lionel, he saw that they were about his age, twenty-four, or a little older. They smelled like tobacco and bright, vegetal things-orchids, hydrangeas. They said hey and hi and excuse me, and he stepped back to let them pass.
When the kitchen was empty and everyone had settled down to eat, Lionel made his own plate of baked asparagus, brown rice, kale salad. He leaned against the flaking yellow counter and pushed the food around until it had all been drawn across and through itself. The kitchen was humid, redolent of people and their colognes, shampoos, lotions. But the open window let in a shaft of cold, clear air. The wind whistl
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.06.2021 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 132 x 203 mm |
| Gewicht | 244 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Schlagworte | African American • african american books • african american fiction • African American literature • african american novels • animal • animals • appleseed • books by black authors • books fiction • Family • Fiction • fiction books • gay • gay books • gay fiction • Lesbian • lesbian books • lesbian fiction • lesbian novels • LGBT • Lgbt books • lgbt fiction • Lgbt novels • LGBTQ • lgbtq books • Literary • literary fiction • Literature • long story short • Novels • realistic fiction books • Short Stories • short stories collections • short story anthology • short story collections |
| ISBN-10 | 0-593-42020-9 / 0593420209 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-593-42020-1 / 9780593420201 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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