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Rust and Bone
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Craig Davidson
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Gritty,
- Dark
This book is for you if you're into...
- Gritty stories about fighters and dogfights with no rules
- Unflinching looks at desperate lives and raw survival
- Literary fiction that finds humanity in brutal worlds
Enough incident, shock, and suspense for a dozen books. . . . Filled with stories you haven't heard before.
In steel-tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by fighting dogs, prizefighters, sex addicts, and gamblers. In his title story, Davidson introduces an afflicted boxer whose hand never properly heals after a bone is broken. The fighter's career descends to bouts that have less to do with sport than with survival: no referee, no rules, not even gloves.
In "A Mean Utility" we enter an even more desperate arena: dogfights where Rottweilers, pit bulls, and Dobermans fight each other to the death.
Davidson's stories are small monuments to the telling detail. The hostility of his fictional universe is tempered by the humanity he invests in his characters and by his subtle and very moving observations of their motivations.
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