The Dog: Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250069645 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives in New York with his family. Bingham Prize for debut fiction. . His stories have appeared in A Public Space, The Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, Tin House, Guernica, The New Delta Review, and The Best American Short Stories, and have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. Jack Livings is author of The Dog, which was awarded the 2015 PEN
Winner of the Pen/Robert W. With spare, penetrating prose, Livings gives shape to the anonymous faces in the crowd and illuminates the tensions, ironies, and possibilities of life in modern China. As heartbreaking as it is hopeful, The Dog marks the debut of a startling and wildly imaginative new voice in fiction.. A wealthy factory owner-once a rural peasant-donates repeatedly to earthquake relief efforts, but digs in his heels when government pressure requires him to give even more; a marginalized but powerful Uyghur gangster clashes with his homosexual grandson; and a dogged journalist is forced to resign as young writers in "pink Izod golf shirts and knockoff Italian loafers" write his stories out from under him. Bingham PrizeNominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize"Exceptional A poisoned world, with ruthless people, apparatchiks, Stakhanovites, rude, cruel, anxious chancers, and all subtly alien, quite without the American gene."-Michael Hofmann, The Times Literary Supplement (A Best Book of the Year) Set in the shifting landscape of contemporary China, this riveting, richly imagined collection explodes the country's cultural and social fault lines, revealing a nation accustomed to bitter struggle and the stranglehold of communism as it confronts a generation rife with the promise of unforeseen p
Ruthless and compassionate in its depiction of social, cultural, and familial strife, this is raw, vital storytelling from a voice we cannot ignore. It is Livings's genius, though, to know that nearly hopeless is not the same thing as hopeless. “A masterly debut collection.” Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times (Favorite Books of the Year)“Exceptional A poisoned world, with ruthless people, apparatchiks, Stakhanovites, rude, cruel, anxious chancers, and all subtly alien, quite without the American gene.” Michael Hofmann, The Times Literary Supplement (A Best Book of the Year)“Stunning With The Dog, Mr. Jack Livings is a
One for the Books Does anyone remember that frisson, that almost juvenile bodily thrill of opening a new work of fiction and finding yourself completely, unexpectedly carried away by it? Despite doing more than my fair share to keep Amazon in business, it had been years since I had had that particular pleasure. Then I was lucky enough to receive an advanced-copy of Jack Livings’ **The Dog**.As the New York Times’ Michiko Kakutani points out in her laudatory review (see the link below), Livings is a vir. Life on Beijing Time Taylor McNeil Writing fiction set in a culture foreign to your own is fraught with peril: it’s so easy to sound “off,” like speaking a foreign language with a distinctly flat American accent. Which makes Jack Livings’ accomplishment in The Dog, a collection of short stories set in China, all that more impressive, because he seems to pull it off effortlessly. All but one of the eight stories in this slender collection have protagonists who are Chinese nationals—be they Han or Uyghu. Perceptive stories from contemporary China Veronica Lescay The Dog provided a very perceptive look into contemporary China from the point of view of everyday citizens. I don't read too much fiction set in China, so the short stories in this book were a pleasant surprise, as they humanized a part of the world that is so different from the West.