· Battleborn is Claire Vaye Watkins debut collection of short fiction, set mostly in the U.S. state of Nevada, along the California border. The title refers to one of the state nicknames, Battle Born - itself a reference to Nevada's historic achievement of statehood during the civil war/5. · The most notable feature of “Battleborn,” the first story collection by Claire Vaye Watkins, is its physical landscape, especially as it affects the people who stake their claims on its Author: Antonya Nelson. · Battleborn: Stories. by Claire Vaye Watkins Softcover, pages: $16 Riverhead Books,
'Battleborn,' by Claire Vaye Watkins, is a 'remarkable debut' of short stories. A two lane highway in Nevada's valley of Fire. A drive along this two lane highway cutting through Nevada's. The most notable feature of Battleborn, the first story collection by Claire Vaye Watkins, is its physical landscape, especially as it affects the people who stake their claims on its inhospitable terrain 'Ghosts, Cowboys,' which opens the collection, can be read as a literary fractal of the book over all. The historical sits comfortably alongside the contemporary, and the factual nicely. Claire Vaye Watkins writes as if she scratches her stories from the grit and mining detritus of the Nevada desert she grew up in, then transforms the elemental by gathering language as rich and as natural as the sand or minerals found there like an alchemist. The work is as layered as the often brutal Continue reading "Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins".
Title: Battleborn Author: Claire Vaye Watkins Publisher: Riverhead Books, Formats: Kindle .mobi), ePub .epub), PDF .pdf) Pages: Downloads: www.doorway.ru ( MB), www.doorway.ru ( MB), www.doorway.ru ( MB) Winner of the Story Prize Recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award. Book Summary. 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. “Battleborn,” the astonishingly wise début story collection by Claire Vaye Watkins, takes its title from the tattoo-worthy nickname of her home state, Nevada; the stories are set in the.
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