Rust and Bone: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393329001)

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. He shares with Chuck Palahniuk the uncanny ability to compel our attention, time and time again, to the most difficult subject matter.

Author: Craig Davidson
ISBN-10: 0393329003
ISBN-13: 9780393329001
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.28h x 6.10w x 0.65d