Certain American States
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Granta Books
Published:6th Sep '18
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Twelve stories - each a masterful and compassionate guide to the fluctuations of the human heart - from one of Granta's BEST OF YOUNG AMERICAN NOVELISTS
Certain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey's characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss and longing. A grieving wife gives away the shirts her husband has left behind. A flirtatious widow takes a honeymooning couple to see her husband's grave. A businessman working for a shadowy organization known as 'The Company', checks-in to a room in a strange and remarkable hotel.
With a spare but poetically concentrated style, Catherine Lacey vividly captures the addled, bombed-out, wryly fuzzy perspectives of her lost and drifting characters. These are stories of mystery and brooding, wintry beauty -- Colin Barrett, author of * Young Skins *
Lacey is playful and smart, one of a generation of American women who seem entirely unafraid -- ‘Best Summer Books’ selected by Anne Enright * Guardian *
Profoundly playful and piercingly good... The prose is full of mathematical pleasures. You don't have to read them, but you really should -- Anne Enright * Guardian *
Exquisite... Completely beautiful -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *
Spectacular... Very funny, very bleak... Darkly affecting -- Michael LaPointe * TLS *
Often very funny... Certain American States has a sureness of touch and the unmistakable stamp of knowing exactly what it's doing -- Selected by Sam Leith as a book of the year * Spectator *
ISBN: 9781783782208
Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 12mm
Weight: 204g
208 pages