Rita Bullwinkel

Headshot (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Book Review Best Book of 2024 Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The Washington Post, NYLON, Lit Hub, The Millions, The Rumpus, and more "Make room, American fiction, for a meaningful new voice." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review "As blazing and distinctive a performance as I've beheld in a long while . . . I'm amazed." -Jonathan Lethem, author of Brooklyn Crime Novel and Motherless Brooklyn An electrifying debut novel from an "unusually gifted writer" (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of physical competition An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country. Through a series of face-offs that are raw, ecstatic, and punctuated by flashes of humor and tenderness, prizewinning writer Rita Bullwinkel animates the competitors' pasts and futures as they summon the emotion, imagination, and force of will required to win. Frenetic, surprising, and strikingly original, Headshot is a portrait of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness, and sheer physical pleasure that motivate young women to fight-even, and perhaps especially, when no one else is watching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780593654118
• Artikelnr.: 68178085

Autorenporträt

Rita Bullwinkel is the author of Belly Up, a story collection that won the Believer Book Award. The recipient of a 2022 Whiting Award, she has had her work published in Tin House, Conjunctions, BOMB Magazine, NOON, and Guernica. She is editor at large for McSweeney's, the deputy editor of The Believer, and a contributing editor at NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts and the University of San Francisco.