THE DOGS OF DETROIT (PITT DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZE)

Book ID/图书代码： 03890018C00017

English Summary/英文概要： Winner of the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction. The 14 stories of The Dogs of Detroit each focus on grief and its many strange permutations. This grief alternately devolves into violence, silence, solitude, and utter isolation. In some cases, grief drives the stories as a strong, reactionary force, and yet in other stories, that grief evolves quietly over long stretches of time. Many of the stories also use grief as a prism to explore the beguiling bonds within families. The stories span a variety of geographies, both urban and rural, often considering collisions between the two.

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Awards/获奖情况："In The Dogs of Detroit, everyone is fighting—with siblings, fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, friends, co-workers, and themselves. But they’re also fighting for better lives and for the people they love—with bare-knuckles and callused hands—whether it’s carving three-legged desks out of ancient trees, conning strangers with a gold ring and a broken-down mule, digging graves in the frozen soil of Ohio, turning rats into flaming bits of light in the Bronx, or painting footprints in the snowy ruins of Detroit. These stories contain the powerful voices of the hungry and the grieving and the lost of America and each of them will leave an indelible mark. So put up your dukes and get ready to rumble with Brad Felver! You will not be disappointed." —Hannah Tinti, New York Times-bestselling author of The Good Thief and Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

"Brad Felver is a master of voice and creating unforgettable characters, and the stories in The Dogs of Detroit are knockouts. This collection witnesses violence in its many permutations - the violence of loss, the violence of love, and even tangible, physical brutality when the violence of grief is overwhelming. Sometimes it is easier to throw a punch than to be undone by sorrow. But if these are characters in pain, they are also tremendously human, and even laugh-out-loud funny at times. No one writes like Brad Felver, and The Dogs of Detroit is a remarkable collection." –Anne Valente, author of Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down

"A story collection exploring issues of anger and loss. The 14 stories gathered in Felver’s debut take place in rural settings throughout the Midwest, with a few exceptions set in urban locales. Though uniformly well-crafted, these are gritty stories that often touch on brutal subject matter. In their depiction of men dealing with hardship and loss, it’s the raw, sometimes-violent emotions of anger and regret that the author closely examines, and yet there are also genuine moments of poignancy. In "Queen Elizabeth," one of the standout stories, an unlikely couple’s loving and passionate marriage is increasingly threatened by their class and educational differences until their bond unravels following the death of their young daughter. In "Hide-and-Seek," the narrator is a middle-aged man who likes to hang out at airport lounges fantasizing about weekend trips with imaginary girlfriends. When he suddenly meets up with his long-estranged brother, they begin to reminisce about their past and a brother who died in an accident in their youth. The narrator slowly gathers that his differences with his brother are less defined than he had imagined, and memories of their brother’s death are equally painful for them both. "It’s sad, but my brother and me can only really talk about three or four different things, and one of them is our dead brother. It’s sad how I can’t punch him either, or maybe how I don’t really want to anymore. I guess I’ve always wanted to know someone else was still miserable about all of it, but now that it’s happening, it’s a nasty business." Felver’s writing is sharp and insightful. His stories evoke the style and themes of writers ranging from Richard Russo to Rick Bass to Andre Dubus III and, in the particularly brutal surrealist title story, "The Dogs of Detroit," Cormac McCarthy. A substantial debut by a promising and confident new writer." - Kirkus

About the Author/作者介绍： Brad Felver is a fiction writer, essayist, and teacher of writing. His honors include the O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize special mention, and the Zone 3 Fiction Prize. His fiction and essays have appeared widely in magazines such as One Story, New England Review, Hunger Mountain, and Colorado Review. Currently he serves as Lecturer and Associate Chair of the English Department at Bowling Green State University. He lives with his wife and kids in northern Ohio.

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