| A Loving, Faithful Animal Contributor(s): Rowe, Josephine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1936787571 ISBN-13: 9781936787579 Publisher: Catapult OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: 823.92 |
| LCCN: 2016952069 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.50 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I found myself considering those rare things only books can do, feats outside the purview of film or fine art . . . Gorgeous. --Samantha Hunt, The New York Times Book Review It is New Year's Eve 1990, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru's father, Jack, one of thousands of Australians once conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War, has disappeared. This time Ru thinks he might be gone for good. As rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscape beyond their door, the rest of the family is barely holding on. Ru's sister, Lani, is throwing herself into sex, drugs, and dangerous company. Their mother, Evelyn, is escaping into memories of a more vibrant youth. And meanwhile there is Les, Jack's inscrutable brother, who seems to move through their lives like a ghost, earning both trust and suspicion. A Loving, Faithful Animal is an incandescent portrait of one family searching for what may yet be redeemable from the ruins of war. Tender, brutal, and heart-stopping in its beauty, this novel marks the arrival in the United States of Josephine Rowe, the winner of the 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Prize and one of Australia's most extraordinary young writers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rowe, Josephine: - Josephine Rowe was born in 1984 in Rockhampton, Australia, and grew up in Melbourne. In the U.S. her writing has appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Narrative, The Scofield, and the Paris Review Daily. She holds fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Program in fiction at Stanford University, the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, the Omi International Arts Center, and Yaddo. In 2016, her fiction won the Elizabeth Jolley Prize in Australia. She lives in Tasmania. |