Crazy Hunter
Kay Boyle
(Author)
Description
"I think my Crazy Hunter is the best thing I've ever done," Kay Boyle wrote to her sister Joan in 1939, two weeks after she had finished writing it. Twenty years later she wrote to a friend, it "remains one of my best, I think." This stunning short novel portrays a family--an almost grown young woman, her mother, and her drunkard father--and a magnificent blind gelding. Powerful and businesslike, the mother is determined to put the blind horse down; her daughter is determined to save him. Part of Boyle's "British" period (based on her year's stay in Devon), The Crazy Hunter is a charged inquiry into family relations and moral choice.Product Details
Price
$12.95
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
September 17, 1993
Pages
144
Dimensions
5.05 X 8.12 X 0.36 inches | 0.36 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811212335
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About the Author
Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was a writer and political activist. She was twice awarded Guggenheim fellowships, won the O. Henry Award for best short story of the year in 1935 and again in 1941, held a number of honorary degrees, and occupied the Henry James chair of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1981, she was awarded a Senior Fellowship for Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Reviews
The Crazy Hunter is the story closest to the perfection that I have ever read.--Katherine Anne Porter
