From the author of the acclaimed Pity the Best, a collection of new stories plumbing the depths of American laughter and evil.
Robin McLean Livres
Robin McLean crée des histoires avec une perspective unique, affinée par une vie riche en expériences diverses. Avant de se consacrer à la fiction, elle a exercé comme avocate, puis comme potière dans la nature sauvage de l'Alaska pendant quinze ans. Ce parcours non conventionnel imprègne son écriture d'une voix distincte, offrant aux lecteurs des perspectives inhabituelles et une profonde compréhension de la condition humaine. Son œuvre se caractérise par ses observations aiguisées et sa capacité à explorer des thèmes complexes avec une narration captivante.
A brutalized woman is left for dead. But dead is the one thing she isn't. With a stolen horse and rifle, she escapes into the mountains, and a small posse of her tormentors has to gear up and give chase-whether to beg forgiveness or shut her up for good, nobody knows. With detours through time, space and myth-not to mention into the minds of a pack of philosophical mules-Pity the Beast is a mind-melting feminist Western that pins a tale of sexual violence and vengeance to a canvas as wide and strange as America itself. It's a novel that turns our assumptions about the West, masculinity, good and evil, and the very nature of storytelling onto their heads, with an eye to the cosmic as well as the comic. It urges us to write our stories anew-if we want to avoid becoming beasts ourselves