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Kick the Latch
By (author) Kathryn Scanlan
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Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner’s circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the “particular language†of “grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards, pony people, hotwalkers, everybodyâ€â€”with economy and integrity. Based on transcribed interviews with Sonia, a horse trainer, the novel investigates form and authenticity in a feat of synthesis reminiscent of Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony. As Scanlan puts it, “I wanted to preserve—amplify, exaggerate—Sonia’s idiosyncratic speech, her bluntness, her flair as a storyteller. I arrived at what you could call a composite portrait of a self.†Whittled down with a fiercely singular artistry, Kick the Latch bangs out of the starting gate and carries the reader on a careening joyride around the inside track.
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Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published date | 27 Sep 2022
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 144
Dimensions | 185 x 119 x 13mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 132g
ISBN | 978-0-8112-3200-5
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BISAC | fiction / literary
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