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IN THE DEVIL'S TERRITORY - Kyle Minor
Price: $16.95
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A schoolteacher escapes East Berlin at night, swimming
the Spree River three times carrying elderly relatives on her back, so she can
make her way to West Palm Beach, Florida, and "ruin the lives of fifth grade boys." A
young husband reckons with the likelihood that his wife's troubled pregnancy
will end with her death before Christmas. A preacher bathes his ill and elderly
mother, not knowing that she has mistaken him for the long-lost cousin she watched
murder his brother in her father's tobacco field. In six stories that read like
novels in miniature, Kyle Minor plumbs the depths of human mystery, where meet
our kindnesses and our cruelties, our generosities and our pettinesses.
“ In the Devil’s Territory is a brilliant, electrifying
debut by one of America’s best young writers. Filled with
grace and wisdom, Kyle Minor’s bold, compassionate stories
burn deep into the eternal mysteries and violent truths of the
human experience with the force of a welding torch cranked to
the max. I would walk through Hell to be able to write like him.”
—Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff
“Who is Kyle Minor and how does he know so much about the
dark caverns of the human heart? What whispered spells does he
cast to make me laugh and weep and gasp and clench my jaw all
in the same page? From what secret river does he pull his sentences,
glittering and sinuous? Faced with such captivating writing,
I have only amazed questions—because Kyle Minor has all
the answers.”
—Benjamin Percy, author of Refresh,
Refresh and The Language
of Elk
“ In the Devil's Territory is an extravagantly good book. Dealing with the uneasy transactions people make in family and companionship, its six stories chart the wide scope of human possibility, from brutality to complicated redemption, and achieve a precise, crucial compassion. Kyle Minor's talent is rich and deep, and this book will not soon be forgotten.”
—Erin McGraw, author of The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard
“Kyle Minor writes hellbent, heartbroken fiction that is lyrical and gritty at once. Whether his subject is the recklessness of youth or an old woman’s wrecked life, he remains uncannily attuned to the disturbances of the human heart. Minor’s an extraordinary young writer, not to be missed.”
—Edward Falco, author of Wolf Point and In the Park of Culture
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Kyle Minor's work has appeared widely in magazines
and anthologies, among them Best American Mystery
Stories 2008, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Surreal South, and Twentysomething
Essays by Twentysomething Writers: The Best New Voices of 2006. His work has been
twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Kyle is also co-editor, with Okla Elliott, of The Other
Chekhov (New American
Press, 2008). His writing has been lauded by The Atlantic
Monthly, The Columbus Dispatch, and Random House. Originally from Florida, he now lives in Ohio, where
he is Visiting Writer at the University of Toledo. |
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