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Scared Violent Like Horses

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Scared Violent Like Horses

By John McCarthy

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About the book

Selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy's Scared Violent Like Horses is a deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being. McCarthy's flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose friends play punch-for-punch for fun. He shows us a boy struggling to under...Show more

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Book details

ISBN

9781571315076

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Scared Violent Like Horses

Format

Paperback

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