Kick the Latch
Paperback/Fiction 144 pages English Sep 27, 2022
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Kathryn Scanlan's Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman's life at the racetrack--the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner's circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the "particular language" of "grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards, pony people, hotwalkers, everybody"--with economy and integrity. Based on transcribed interviews with Sonia, a horse trainer, the novel investigates form and authenticity in a feat of synthesis reminiscent of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony. As Scanlan puts it, "I wanted to preserve--amplify, exaggerate--Sonia's idiosyncratic speech, her bluntness, her flair as a storyteller. I arrived at what you could call a composite portrait of a self." Whittled down with a fiercely singular artistry, Kick the Latch bangs out of the starting gate and carries the reader on a careening joyride around the inside track.
- Author:
- Kathryn Scanlan
- Publisher:
- New Directions
- Publication Date:
- Sep 27, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 144 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 081123200X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780811232005