Stranger In This World

Title: Stranger In This World

Author: Kevin Canty

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789061694892

Condition: Good

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Description:
An insecure teenager seduces a mentally handicapped girl next door, much to his own dismay; a young lifeguard is too stoned and obsessed with a woman to notice that a child has fallen into the water; a boy toys with the idea of ​​leaving his drunken father on the side of the highway and starting a new life by hitchhiking. The people who populate Kevin Canty's stories are all 'strangers in this world'. Canty sublimely describes the moments of despair in lives that slowly but surely derail, no matter how hard his characters try to escape their fate. Kevin Canty is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina. His stories have appeared in Esquire, Details and Story magazine, and in the Netherlands in Avenue and the Nieuw Wereld Tijdschrift. Enthusiastic critics have compared Canty's work to that of Kaymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor. The rights to this unique debut have now been sold worldwide. 'Masterful.' New York Times Book Review. 'A gripping collection of stories.' International Herald Tribune. 'An impressive debut.' Publishers Weekly. 'A collection of stories of miraculous coherence and beauty.' Het Parool.