Rion Amilcar Scott

The World Doesn't Require You: Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist • PEN / Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted • Aspen Words Literary Prize Best Books of the Year: Washington Post, NPR, Buzzfeed and Entropy Best Short Story Collections of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, the New York Public Library, and Electric Literature

Welcome to Cross River, Maryland, where Rion Amilcar Scott creates a mythical universe peopled by some of the most memorable characters in contemporary American fiction.

Set in the mythical Cross River, Maryland, The World Doesn't Require You heralds a major unique literary talent (Entertainment Weekly). Established by the leaders of America's only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, the town still evokes the rhythms of its founding. With lyrical prose and singular dialect, Rion Amilcar Scott pens a saga that echoes the fables carried down for generationslike the screecher birds who swoop down for their periodic sacrifice, and the water women who lure men to wet death.

Among its residentswildly spanning decades, perspectives, and speciesare David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be God's last son; Tyrone, a ruthless, yet charismatic Ph.D. candidate, whose dissertation about a childhood game ignites mayhem in the neighboring, once-segregated town of Port Yooga; and Jim, an all-too-obedient robot who obeys his Master. Culminating with an explosive novella, The World Doesn't Require You is a leap into a blazing new level of brilliance (Lauren Groff) that affirms Rion Amilcar Scott as a writer whose storytelling gifts the world very much requires.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631495397
• Artikelnr.: 59589178

Autorenporträt

Rion Amilcar Scott's first book, Insurrections, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. His work has been published in the Kenyon Review, the Rumpus, PANK, and Confrontation, among others. He lives and writes in Maryland.