Night Beast

Ruth Joffre

ISBN 10: 0802128084 / ISBN 13: 9780802128089

Published by Grove Atlantic, Inc. Mai 2018, 2018

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Neuware - A masterful collection from an important new voice in American fiction, Night Beast is a gorgeously written work of profound originality and vision. These doomed love stories and twisted fairytales explore the lives of women-particularly queer women and mothers-and reveal the monsters lurking in our daily lives: the madness, isolation, betrayals, and regrets that arise as we seek human connection. Through this collection, readers are taken to places where the sun never sets, where cornfields rustle ominously and sleepwalkers prowl the night. In 'Weekend,' the lead actors of an avant-garde television show begin to confuse their characters' identities with their own; in 'Go West, and Grow Up,' a young girl living in a car with her mother is forced to shed her innocence too soon; and in 'Safekeeping,' a woman trapped inside a futuristic safehouse gradually unravels as she waits for her lover, who may never return. With exquisite prose and transfixing imagery, Joffre explores worlds both strange and familiar, homing in on the darker side of humanity. Powerful, unsettling, and wildly imaginative, Night Beast is a mind-bending, genre-hopping debut, a provocative and uncommonly raw examination of relationships and sexuality, trauma and redemption, the meaning of family, and coming-of-age-and growing old-as an outsider.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Night Beast
• Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc. Mai 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802128084
• ISBN 13: 9780802128089
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 211W x 139H x 17D millimeters 211 millimeters width by 139 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 243 grams

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Synopsis

A masterful collection from an important new voice in American fiction, Night Beast is a gorgeously written work of profound originality and vision. These doomed love stories and twisted fairytales explore the lives of women―particularly queer women and mothers―and reveal the monsters lurking in our daily lives: the madness, isolation, betrayals, and regrets that arise as we seek human connection.

Through this collection, readers are taken to places where the sun never sets, where cornfields rustle ominously and sleepwalkers prowl the night. In “Weekend,” the lead actors of an avant-garde television show begin to confuse their characters’ identities with their own; in “Go West, and Grow Up,” a young girl living in a car with her mother is forced to shed her innocence too soon; and in “Safekeeping,” a woman trapped inside a futuristic safehouse gradually unravels as she waits for her lover, who may never return.

With exquisite prose and transfixing imagery, Joffre explores worlds both strange and familiar, homing in on the darker side of humanity. Powerful, unsettling, and wildly imaginative, Night Beast is a mind-bending, genre-hopping debut, a provocative and uncommonly raw examination of relationships and sexuality, trauma and redemption, the meaning of family, and coming-of-age―and growing old―as an outsider.

About the Author

Ruth Joffre is the author of Night Beast. Born and raised in Northern Virginia, she graduated with honors from Cornell University and earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, Masters Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Nashville Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She lives in Seattle, where she teaches writing and literature at the Hugo House.