The World Doesn't Require You
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
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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.
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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...
Autoren-Porträt von Rion Amilcar Scott
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rion Amilcar Scott
- 2021, 400 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 20 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Apollo
- ISBN-10: 1800244347
- ISBN-13: 9781800244344
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.02.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Rion Amilcar Scott proves himself an impressive myth-slayer and fable-maker... The World Doesn't Require You reminds us that having to fight racism has a strange way of distorting everything one touches' New York Times Book Review
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