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Kick the Latch

Paperback EN 2024 1e druk 9789028243002
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Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack – the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner’s circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the ‘particular language’ of ‘grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards, pony people, hotwalkers, everybody’ – with economy and integrity.

Based on transcribed interviews with Sonia, a horse trainer, the novel investigates form and authenticity. As Kathryn Scanlan puts it, ‘I wanted to preserve – amplify, exaggerate – Sonia’s idiosyncratic speech, her bluntness, her flair as a storyteller. I arrived at what you could call a composite portrait of a self.’ Whittled down with a fiercely singular artistry, Kick the Latch bangs out of the starting gate and carries the reader on a careening joyride around the inside track.

‘Kick the Latch is a triumph.’ – Financial Times

Specificaties

ISBN13:9789028243002
Taal:EN
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:192
Uitgever:Uitgeverij G.A. Van Oorschot B.V.
Druk:1
Verschijningsdatum:15-11-2024

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