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The World Doesn’t Require You
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ISBN-13:
9781800244344
Veröffentl:
2021
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.03.2021
Seiten:
400
Autor:
Rion Amilcar Scott
Gewicht:
285 g
Format:
198x132x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of the story collection, The World Doesn't Require You (Norton/Liveright, August 2019). His debut story collection, Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016), was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His work has been published in journals such as The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Rumpus, among others. He lives in Annapolis, MD with his wife and two sons.
Contemporary and essential, The World Doesn't Require You announces the arrival of a generational talent, as Rion Amilcar Scott shatters rigid genre lines to explore larger themes of race, violence, and love - all told with sly humour.
A genre-smashing collection of short stories, exploring larger themes of race, violence, and love - all told with sly humour.
MARKET: Heads of the Coloured People - Nafissa Thompson-Spire; Friday Black - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah; What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky - Lesley Nneka Arimah; George Saunders; Junot Diaz; The Underground Railroad - Coulson Whitehead; Blonde Roots - Bernardine Evaristo.
Established by the leaders of the country's only successful slave revolt, history casts a long shadow over its residents. Among them are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be the last son of God; Jim, a Robot Personal Helper desperate to escape the master who enslaves him; and James-my-man, who travels the path of the Underground Railroad year after year.
Not to forget the water women who lure men to their watery graves and the screecher birds who cry out for sacrificial flesh...