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Big Cats : Stories
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Big Cats : Stories Paperback - 2005

by Reinhorn, Holiday

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A sparkling collection of 12 award-winning stories in the tradition of Lorrie Moore and Dan Chaon, "Big Cats" heralds the arrival of a new and important voice in short fiction.

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  • Title Big Cats : Stories
  • Author Reinhorn, Holiday
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-07-06
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP94052682
  • ISBN 9780743272940 / 0743272943
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.66 in (21.34 x 14.73 x 1.68 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Pacific Coast (U.S.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005040021
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Big Cats opens with "Charlotte," in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away from Me, David," a bank manager tries to overcome his haunted past as he deals with the aftermath of a minor earthquake and the body of a customer who died in the lobby. "Big Cats" pits two teenage girls against each other in an escalating catfight at the zoo where they work, culminating in a blowout in front of the lion cage.

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"Holiday Reinhorn is among the very best of a new generation of short story writers. Her work grabs you from the beginning and doesn't let go: tough, deep, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Big Cats is the work of a major talent."
-- Dan Chaon, author of the National Book Award fiction finalist Among the Missing and You Remind Me of Me

Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2005, Page 1756
  • Ingram Advance, 07/01/2005, Page 44
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2005, Page 502
  • New York Times, 08/21/2005, Page 21
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/30/2005, Page 35
  • Vanity Fair, 08/01/2005, Page 70

About the author

Holiday Reinhorn is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop; the recipient of a Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and a finalist for the PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award. A nominee for both the Pushcart Prize and the anthology Best New American Voices, she lives in Van Nuys, California. Her stories have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Other Voices, Northwest Review, and other literary magazines

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