![]() ![]() Most bravely of all, Watkins takes on – and reinvents – her own troubled legacy in a story that emerges from the mayhem and destruction of Helter Skelter. Decades after she led her best friend into a degrading encounter in a Vegas hotel room, a woman feels the aftershock. A prospecting hermit discovers the limits of his rugged individualism when he tries to rescue an abused teenager. ![]() The arrival of a foreigner transforms the exchange of eroticism and emotion at a prostitution ranch. Her characters orbit around the region's vast spaces, winning redemption despite - and often because of - the hardship and violence they endure. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it. ![]() Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation AwardĪ National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" fiction writer of 2012 ![]()
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