Honeymoon and Other Stories

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Kevin Canty ISBN: 9780525435044
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: February 22, 2017
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Kevin Canty
ISBN: 9780525435044
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: February 22, 2017
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

Kevin Canty is a master of the short story, a writer whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, but always with the understanding that Canty's is strikingly new, cool, and real. Now in Honeymoon*,* after two novels, Kevin Canty returns to short fiction, his first collection since his debut A Stranger in this World*,* a book that was hailed as "Superb: These tautly structured stories breathe with sharp, distilled intelligence."

Honeymoonis a book about love, about lovers and would-be lovers exploring unlikely alliances, all of them toeing a certain eventful edge, a decision between rational restraint and something altogether different. In the title story, a man leaves his lover's wedding with the bride's ex-girlfriend; in "Flipper" a young escapee from "fat camp" discovers a different kind of hunger while enjoying a pregnant teen's gifts of forbidden chocolate; in "Aquarium," a thirty-eight-year old woman who claims to "follow the straight and narrow" tries to resist seducing her fifteen-year-old nephew again.

Revealing the hidden longings and quirky needs of both men and women with a tough sensitivity and deep, sometimes biting humor, Honeymoon presents a masterful writer purely at home in his form, yet continuing to push himself and his stories to their limits with enthusiasm and daring.

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Kevin Canty is a master of the short story, a writer whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, but always with the understanding that Canty's is strikingly new, cool, and real. Now in Honeymoon*,* after two novels, Kevin Canty returns to short fiction, his first collection since his debut A Stranger in this World*,* a book that was hailed as "Superb: These tautly structured stories breathe with sharp, distilled intelligence."

Honeymoonis a book about love, about lovers and would-be lovers exploring unlikely alliances, all of them toeing a certain eventful edge, a decision between rational restraint and something altogether different. In the title story, a man leaves his lover's wedding with the bride's ex-girlfriend; in "Flipper" a young escapee from "fat camp" discovers a different kind of hunger while enjoying a pregnant teen's gifts of forbidden chocolate; in "Aquarium," a thirty-eight-year old woman who claims to "follow the straight and narrow" tries to resist seducing her fifteen-year-old nephew again.

Revealing the hidden longings and quirky needs of both men and women with a tough sensitivity and deep, sometimes biting humor, Honeymoon presents a masterful writer purely at home in his form, yet continuing to push himself and his stories to their limits with enthusiasm and daring.

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