Honeymoon: And Other Stories

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The characters in Kevin Cantys 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.

Reviews

A very beautiful book. The New York Times Book Review

The language is beautiful, the attraction fatal. . . . [Canty] is a poet among storytellers. Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Kevin Cantys stories are short, spare and both beautiful and painful to read. The Washington Post

The ease with which he renders such a vast terrain of livesfrom city to wilderness, children to adults, professionals to proles is Cantys crowning achievement. Time Out New York

Author Bio

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