Filthy animals / Brandon Taylor.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 276 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780525538912
- 0525538917
- 9780593420201
- 0593420209
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | TAYLOR, BRANDON | Available | 33111010586341 | ||||
Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | TAYLOR, BRANDON | Available | 33111010532931 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Potluck -- Little beast -- Flesh -- As though that were love -- Proctoring -- Filthy animals -- Mass -- Anne of Cleves -- Apartment -- What made them made you -- Meat.
In Taylor's linked stories he focuses on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others. The stories, set among young people in the American Midwest, provide a 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. -- adapted from jacket