Kevin Canty

For readers of Russell Banks and Richard Ford, a novel about loss, love, and redemption following a catastrophe in a small mining town.

The Underworld

A collection of stories about reckless love that reaches across generations ranges from characters just discovering the wonders and mysteries of love, to men and women all too familiar with love's pains and disappointments, yet still in search of its comfort. By the author of A Stranger in This World. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

And Other Stories

Honeymoon

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Where the money went

Smoking marijuana and cutting up in school to avoid the pain associated with his dysfunctional family, Kenny finds his life transformed by his affair with Junie, a young girl who is battling her own demons. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Into the Great Wide Open

In the tradition of the works of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford, this fiction debut shines with verbal brilliance. Disturbing yet compellingly readable, the stories in this collection explore the gap between disappointment and hope, between life as it could be and life as it is.

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A Stranger in This World

After discovering the crumpled body of a U.S. senator in a car wreck, a Native American carpenter from Montana embarks on a ill-fated love affair with the senator's fragile granddaughter. By the author of A Stranger in This World. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

A Novel

Nine Below Zero

Habité par la présence entêtante des paysages du Montana dont Kevin Canty a fait son territoire littéraire, Toutes les choses de la vie s'inscrit dans une grande tradition américaine. Une prose âpre et minimaliste, qui va à l'essentiel et exprime sentiments et émotions avec une vérité saisissante, fait de lui un formidable observateur des êtres, des couples, et des lignes de faille qui les traversent. Comme chaque année, June et RL se retrouvent le long de la Blackfoot River, une bouteille de Johnnie Walker à la main, pour célébrer l'anniversaire et la mémoire de Taylor, mort onze ans plus tôt. June a été son unique amour, RL son ami d'enfance. Mais ce jour-là, décidée à prendre un nouveau départ, June déclare qu'elle ne sera plus jamais « la veuve de personne ». Divorcé, père d'une fille de vingt ans, et un peu paumé, RL sait secrètement qu'il est, lui aussi, à un carrefour de son existence. Et qu'il ne tient qu'à lui de lui donner un sens. Surtout lorsqu'il voit resurgir son amour de jeunesse, Betsy, une femme aux abois qu'il se met en tête de sauver... « Une maîtrise époustouflante pour faire venir à la surface de ses mots toute l'Amérique profonde et la profondeur non moins vertigineuse de ses personnages. » Frédéric Vitoux, Le Nouvel Observateur

Toutes les choses de la vie

A collection of short stories charts the narrow territory between the normal and the obsessional, the known and the shockingly violent, where people cross into a world of danger and risk, hope and disappointment

A Stranger in this World

From the acclaimed author of A Stranger in this World and Into the Great Wide Open comes a novel that explores reckless love and penetrates the unrelenting winter landscape of the American West. Marvin Deernose, a Native American carpenter and recovering alcoholic, has just returned to his Montana hometown with hopes of finding a new start. Early one snowy morning, Marvin notices an overturned Cadillac down an embankment. After rescuing the elderly Senator Henry Neihart, who has just suffered a stroke, Marvin is invited to the Senator's estate where he is immediately drawn to Justine Gallego, the Senator's wayward, unhappily married granddaughter. As these tarnished souls recognize their profound, shared attraction, they dive headlong into a dangerous and intense affair that forever alters the course of their lives.

Onderwereld

In these nine surprising stories about love and the desertion of love, a father contemplates his bank balance amid receipts for ski vacations; a real-estate agent tries to sell a house while his small son bites other children; and a widower, resigned to television for company, discovers the pleasures of life with another woman. In Kevin Canty’s masterful collection, men convey the bitterness, tenderness, and humor of romantic relationships. Rarely is a man so revealing.

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