- Published: 02/05/2019
- ISBN: 9781783782215
- 129x20mm
- 208 pages
Certain American States
Catherine Lacey
Certain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey’s characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss and longing.
A grieving wife gives away the shirts her husband has left behind. A flirtatious widow takes a honeymooning couple to see her husband’s grave. A businessman working for a shadowy organization known as ‘The Company’, checks-in to a room in a strange and remarkable hotel.
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With a spare but poetically concentrated style, Catherine Lacey vividly captures the addled, bombed-out, wryly fuzzy perspectives of her lost and drifting characters. These are stories of mystery and brooding, wintry beauty
Colin Barrett, author of, Young Skins
Lacey is playful and smart, one of a generation of American women who seem entirely unafraid
‘Best Summer Books’ selected by Anne Enright, Guardian
Profoundly playful and piercingly good... The prose is full of mathematical pleasures. You don't have to read them, but you really should
Anne Enright, Guardian
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