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Honeymoon

And Other Stories

Kevin Canty

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English
Vintage Books
15 December 2002
The characters in Kevin Canty's new collection are people we all know. People who are perhaps ourselves, searching, often in the wrong places, for something meaningful, or real, or at least, for a moment, right. Here are couples like Vincent and Laurie, who after beginning an ill-timed relationship, escape for a weekend at the beach, where they confront their inevitable separation. There is also Olive, a recovering drug addict, sent on a mission to help her nephew, who finds herself in an illicit relationship with both him and his problems. And a young boy nicknamed Flipper, sequestered for a summer at a ""fat"" camp, who finds unexpected comfort in the company and forbidden gifts of a pregnant teenager.

In these stories, Canty demonstrates both deep understanding and a powerful grasp of language and continues to set himself apart as a master of the short story.
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 201mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   167g
ISBN:   9780375708008
ISBN 10:   0375708006
Series:   Vintage Contemporaries
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kevin Canty is the award-winning author of the novels Into the Great Wide Open, Nine Below Zero, and Winslow in Love, as well as the short story collections Honeymoon and Other Stories, A Stranger in This World, and Where the Money Went. His most recent book is The Underworld: A Novel, published in 2017. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Details, Story, The New York Times Magazine, Tin House, and Glimmer Train.  He currently teaches fiction writing at the University of Montana.

Reviews for Honeymoon: And Other Stories

A very beautiful book. <i>The New York Times Book Review The language is beautiful, the attraction fatal. . . . [Canty] is a poet among storytellers. <i>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i> Kevin Canty s stories are short, spare and both beautiful and painful to read. <i>The Washington Post</i> The ease with which he renders such a vast terrain of lives from city to wilderness, children to adults, professionals to proles is Canty s crowning achievement. <i>Time Out New York</i>


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