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Rust and Bone

Stories

By Craig Davidson

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| Paperback | 9780393329001

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"Enough incident, shock, and suspense for a dozen books….Filled with stories you haven't heard before."—Bret Easton Ellis

In steel-tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by fighting dogs, prizefighters, sex addicts, and gamblers. In his title story, DaContinue

"Enough incident, shock, and suspense for a dozen books….Filled with stories you haven't heard before."—Bret Easton Ellis

In steel-tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by fighting dogs, prizefighters, sex addicts, and gamblers. In his title story, Davidson introduces an afflicted boxer whose hand never properly heals after a bone is broken. The fighter's career descends to bouts that have less to do with sport than with survival: no referee, no rules, not even gloves. In "A Mean Utility" we enter an even more desperate arena: dogfights where Rottweilers, pit bulls, and Dobermans fight each other to the death.

Davidson's stories are small monuments to the telling detail. The hostility of his fictional universe is tempered by the humanity he invests in his characters and by his subtle and very moving observations of their motivations. He shares with Chuck Palahniuk the uncanny ability to compel our attention, time and time again, to the most difficult subject matter.

Critics

  • Snap, Splatter and Pop

    IT may, as the conventional wisdom goes, be harder to write comedy than tragedy - but it's also easy for a writer to shoot for the second and hit the first. That's what happens in Craig Davidson's short-story collection, where the author plunges a ch ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Rust and Bone

    by Craig Davidson There is a familiar pattern to intergenerational politics. The young folk look at their parents and see nothing but bad choices and misguided values. They vow to do things better, to avoid all the old pitfalls. But in eschewing the ... (read full critics)

    quillandquire published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0393329003
  • ISBN-13: 9780393329001
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton
  • Pub date: Nov 13, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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