Kick the Latch (eBook, ePUB) - Scanlan, Kathryn
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About one woman's fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch with its ruthless concision and artful mysteriesis lightning in a bottle
Kathryn Scanlan's Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman's life at the racetrackthe flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner's circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the particular language of grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards, pony people, hotwalkers, everybodywith economy and integrity.
Based on transcribed interviews with Sonia, a horse…mehr

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About one woman's fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latchwith its ruthless concision and artful mysteriesis lightning in a bottle

Kathryn Scanlan's Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman's life at the racetrackthe flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner's circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the particular language of grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards, pony people, hotwalkers, everybodywith economy and integrity.

Based on transcribed interviews with Sonia, a horse trainer, the novel investigates form and authenticity in a feat of synthesis reminiscent of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony. As Scanlan puts it, I wanted to preserveamplify, exaggerateSonia's idiosyncratic speech, her bluntness, her flair as a storyteller. I arrived at what you could call a composite portrait of a self. Whittled down with a fiercely singular artistry, Kick the Latch bangs out of the starting gate and carries the reader on a careening joyride around the inside track.

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Kathryn Scanlan received a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for exceptional accomplishment in literature. Her story collection The Dominant Animal was named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Southwest Review, and Publishers Weekly, and her first book, Aug 9Fog, was praised in a starred review by Publishers Weekly as an outstanding debut, profound and moving: Scanlan's portrait of an everywoman feels entirely new." She lives in Los Angeles.