Battleborn

Informationen zum Autor Claire Vaye Watkins was born in Bishop, California in 1984 and raised in Nevada. A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno, Claire earned her MFA from the Ohio State University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, The Paris Review , the New York Times and elsewhere. She is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University. In 2012, Watkins was selected as one of the National Book Foundation's "Top 5 under 35" and was a finalist for the New York Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Her debut short story collection, Battleborn , won the 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize. Klappentext 'Unsettling and compelling, Claire Vaye Watkins's writing has deservedly been likened to Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx for its fresh, foreboding approach to America's West... A spellbinding book' - Observer From Las Vegas to the Blackrock Desert, Vaye Watkins's stories of hardship, violence and redemption take the reader right to the heart of a truly American experience Zusammenfassung From Las Vegas to the Blackrock Desert! Vaye Watkins's stories of hardship! violence and redemption take the reader right to the heart

Product details

• Authors: Claire V Watkins, Claire V. Watkins, Claire Vaye Watkins, Watkins Claire Vaye
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2013
• EAN: 9781847084873
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-487-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary