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Dogwalker: Stories

The debut collection of an O. Henry Awardâ‚¬â€œ winning short-story writer, Dogwalker assembles its cast from societyâ‚¬s misfits: the disabled and the blind, the hapless and the troubled, and all species of mutantsâ‚¬"including a giant slug that almost breaks up a marriage, a preponderance of three-legged dogs, and a family of circus freaks who look remarkably like cats. Here, too, are hexes, voodoo, refrigerated dead puppies, and an unforgettable game involving a chainsaw. The stories in Dogwalker are narrated with surreal tranquility, with a pronounced lack of amazement at lifeâ‚¬s vicissitudes and an affable acceptance of its strangest circumstances.

With a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue and a sensibility as unique as his subjects, Arthur Bradford peels back a surface layer of depravity and violence to reveal a world of surprising gentleness, compassion, and innocence. In these twelve strikingly provocative and hilarious stories, he emerges as an utterly original new voice in contemporary fiction.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2001-08-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375412325