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Battleborn

A debut collection of ten short works reimagines the mythology of the American West and includes stories of a foreigner's arrival at a prostitution ranch, a hermit's attempt to rescue an abused teen, and a woman's role in a friend's degrading Vegas encounter.

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Main Author: Watkins, Claire Vaye
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Nevada > Fiction.
Short stories.
Western stories > Nevada.
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Summary:A debut collection of ten short works reimagines the mythology of the American West and includes stories of a foreigner's arrival at a prostitution ranch, a hermit's attempt to rescue an abused teen, and a woman's role in a friend's degrading Vegas encounter.
Item Description:"Stories"--Jacket.
Physical Description:288 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9781594488252 (hbk.)
1594488258 (hbk.)
Author Notes:Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of Battleborn , winner of the Story Prize, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Battleborn was named a Best Book of 2012 by the San Francisco Chronicle , Boston Globe , Time Out New York and Flavorwire , and a Best Short Story Collection by NPR.org. In 2012, the National Book Foundation named Claire one of the 5 Best Writers Under 35. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta , One Story , The Paris Review , Ploughshares , Glimmer Train , Best of the West 2011 , Best of the Southwest 2013 , and elsewhere. A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno and the Ohio State University, Claire has received fellowships from the Writers' Conferences at Sewanee and Bread Loaf. An assistant professor at Bucknell University, Claire is also the co-director, with Derek Palacio, of the Mojave School, a free creative writing workshop for teenagers in rural Nevada.

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