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Print Length: 306 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Books (August 2, 2012)
Publication Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
ASIN: B0085DP2LQ
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One of the reasons I'm drawn to fiction set in the West is that the good stuff, the really good stuff, brings this part of the world to life. It is a vivid, harsh, beautiful place that rarely nurtures but often rewards anyone who can handle it.Many of the characters can handle it in Claire Vaye Watkins's brilliant stories in Battleborn, which are set in Nevada and Northern California. They just don't know they can handle it until circumstances point it out to them abruptly.That's certainly the case in "The Last Thing We Need". Thomas Grey, who lives out in the Middle of Nowhere, finds the debris of what may have been a wreck and writes to the man whose name and address he finds on some prescription bottles. Even though he has a wife and two children, he lives mostly with his thoughts. And, because the man he is writing to has not answered, Thomas Grey begins to relay his thoughts:"This is our old joke. Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our life against that which we thought it would be by now."I'll tell you what I don't tell her, that there is something shameful in this, the buoying of our sinking spirits with old stories."And later:"On second thought, perhaps sometimes these things are best left by the side of the road, as it were. Sometimes a person wants a part of you that's no good. Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives."Grey finds out that there is something he cares very much about besides the past. He can handle where he is and what he has.Other characters need to leave to reach that epiphany. One leaves a brother to his own devices after his sibling is enthralled by something else out in the land where gold was hunted and where gamblers still believe they will come out on top. Another has been depending on her sister and reaches a point where, perhaps, her sister can now depend on her.Others are not so successful. Not all attempts by the men to be heroic succeed, as one old-time miner discovers. Not all attempts by the women to let go of the past succeed.For all of them, the men and the women, the ones who thrive and the ones who barely survive, promises matter. In a story, "The Diggings", set during the Gold Rush, a 49'er explains:"A promise unkept will take a man's mind. It does not matter whether the promise is made by a woman or a territory or a future foretold. ... Because though I was afraid and angry and lonesome much of the time, I was also closer to my own raw heart there in the territory than I have ever been since."
graphic modern fiction set in watkins' home state of nevada. watkins' father spent some time with the manson family, until he fled the colony and moved to nevada. i purchased this book to read that one story she wrote about that period in her life, but the rest of the book contains stories that, in my opinion, were just as good. a few were so horrifying, they were better, IMHO. the settings are stark, and some of the topics are disturbing, to say the least. some of the stories, particularly that of two innocent tourists who accompany some boys to a hotel room are horrifying. watkins can write characters whose personalities are as diverse as the las vegas population. i found watkins' stories tense and page-turning, and i would compare her to jon raymond, or virginia beach's mark richards. of all the modern fiction i've discovered, this collection is among the best. it's not for the faint of heart, but worth every minute of your time.
I just graduated from college with a Bachelors of Arts in Photojournalism but my minor was Creative Writing, this book was assigned for the final class of my minor "Elements of Craft" where we read different fiction novels and collections and assessed the craft of the author's work. I am not a fiction person. I will admit that immediately, but wow, I am obsessed with this book. I'm still 100 pages shy of finishing it, but so far the 5ish stories I've read have blown me away. I never knew fiction could be so good. I've been recommending this book to everyone who will listen. And so far everyone's seemed very interested in it. I've had multiple requests to borrow my book, but I'm too scared to part with it for fear I won't get it back. This one is definitely staying in my library!
Although I don't usually read short stories, I purchased this collection because I enjoyed Watkins' other book, "Gold Fame Citrus." In short: this collection is fantastic and arguably better than Gold Fame Citrus. I could try and fail to describe why the collection is so good (well written, imaginative, extremely different viewpoints and styles from story to story), but one thing I found interesting is that Watkins manages to end most of the stories on a philosophical note without seeming pretentious or preachy, which is somewhat amazing considering how often other authors try the same approach and fail.
I originally bought this on the reviews from the likes of Tom McGuane and others. Ms. Watkins was being compared to E. Annie Proulx. She is no E. Annie Proulx. Far from it.There were moments in Battleborn of very good writing. However those were as another wrote, 'Just one dark, sick story after another. Disturbing. OK, some of the stories make you think, but the thinking doesn't lead you anywhere worthwhile. I must add that after reading 4 or 5 of the stories, I chose not to subject myself to the rest.'That is absolutely what I did as well. It is very rare I do not finish a book. I almost made it but the stopped at p 261/288. I could take no more.
What a great collection of short stories. Largely set in rural Nevada and California, these stories are painful, heartbreaking, poignant and real. I have never been to the American West and this collection made it come alive for me. Trailers baking in the desert sun, whorehouses in the Las Vegas, bone dry ranches in the rural California mountains and the people who inhabit them. Good book.
I am not sure why they call this author one of the best. She relates these bizarre tales --- I am glad that I have never lived nor experienced such "living" where life is so cheap. Interesting from her point of view --- but why?
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