Filthy Animals - Large Print by Brandon Taylor (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>BRANDON TAYLOR IS: </b><br><b>A powerhouse. --</b><b><i>Newsweek</i></b><br><b>An extraordinary cartographer. --</b><b><i>Esquire</i></b><br><b>A striking new voice with a vital perspective. --</b><b><i>Harper's Bazaar</i></b><br><b>A brilliant writer. --Garth Greenwell</b> <p/><b>A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction from the author of Booker Prize finalist REAL LIFE </b></b> <p/>In the series of linked stories at the heart of <i>Filthy Animals</i>, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty. <p/>One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways. With <i>Filthy Animals</i> he renews and expands on the promise made in <i>Real Life</i>, training his precise and unsentimental gaze on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others. Psychologically taut and quietly devastating, <i>Filthy Animals</i> is a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Brandon Taylor</b> is the author of the acclaimed novel <i>Real Life</i>, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and been named a <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice. The senior editor of Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Lit Hub, he holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction.
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