Creature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780984469383)

"Amina Cain is a beautiful writer. Like the girl in the rearview mirror in your backseat, quiet, looking out the window half smiling, then not, then glancing at you, curious to her. That is how her thoughts and words make me feel, like clouds hanging with jets, and knowing love is pure." --Thurston Moore

Amina Cain's Creature brings together short fictions set in the space between action and reflection, edging at times toward the quiet and contemplative, at other times toward the grotesque or unsettling. Like the women in Jane Bowles's work, Cain's narrators seem always slightly displaced in the midst of their own experiences, carefully observing the effects of themselves on their surroundings and of their surroundings on themselves. Other literary precursors might include Raymond Carver and John Cage, with Carver's lucid prose and instinct for the potency of small gestures and Cage's ability to return the modern world to elementary principles. These stories offer not just a unique voice but a unique narrative space, a distinct and dramatic rendering of being-in-the-world.

Author: Amina Cain
ISBN-10: 0984469389
ISBN-13: 9780984469383
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2013
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.50w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2013