I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories Pdf Summary
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories Pdf book is an urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg’s first story collection since her acclaimed and prizewinning Isle of Youth, draws readers into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and mind like rotten, fragrant fruit. Both timeless and urgent, these eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg’s trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. Moving from the peculiarities of Florida to liminal spaces of travel in Mexico City, Sicily, and Spain, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears is uncannily attuned to our current moment, and to the thoughts we reveal to no one but ourselves.
In “Lizards,” a man mutes his wife’s anxieties by giving her a La Croix-like seltzer laced with sedatives. In the title story, a woman poses as her more successful sister during a botched Italian holiday, a choice that brings about strange and violent consequences, while in “Karolina,” a woman discovers her prickly ex-sister-in-law in the aftermath of an earthquake and is forced to face the truth about her violent brother.
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears presents a collection of women on the verge, trying to grasp what’s left of life: grieving, divorced, and hyperaware, searching, vulnerable, and unhinged, they exist in a world that deviates from our own only when you look too close. With remarkable control and transcendent talent, van den Berg dissolves, in the words of the narrator of “Slumberland,” “that border between magic and annihilation,” and further establishes herself as a defining fiction writer of our time.
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About Laura van den Berg Author of I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories Pdf Book
Laura van den Berg the Author of I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories Pdf Book was raised in Florida. Her first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her second collection of stories, The Isle of Youth (FSG Originals, 2013), received the Rosenthal Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Bard Fiction Prize. Her first novel, Find Me (FSG, 2015), was long-listed for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her most recent novel, The Third Hotel (FSG, 2018) was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award. Her next collection of stories, I Hold a Wolf by theEars, will be published in June 2020. She lives in the Boston area.
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (July 28, 2020)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0374102090
- ISBN-13 : 978-0374102098
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.6 x 0.93 x 8.62 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #691,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,847 in Psychological Fiction (Books)
- #11,749 in Short Stories (Books)
- #33,501 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.2 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
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