Chanelle Benz

The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead -- Chanelle Benz, Paperback

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*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING*

Named a Best Book of 2017 by The San Francisco Chronicle

Named one of Electric Literature's 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017

A stunningly original debut collection about lives across history marked by violence and longing.

A brother and sister turn outlaw in a wild and brutal landscape. The daughter of a diplomat disappears and resurfaces across the world as a deadly woman of many names. A young Philadelphia boy struggles with the contradictions of privilege, violence, and the sway of an incarcerated father. A monk in sixteenth century England suffers the dissolution of his monastery and the loss of all that he held sacred.

The characters in The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, Benz's wildly imaginative debut, are as varied as any in recent literature, but they share a thirst for adventure which sends them rushing full-tilt toward the moral crossroads, becoming victims and perpetrators along the way. Riveting, visceral, and heartbreaking, Benz's stories of identity, abandonment, and fierce love come together in a daring, arresting vision.



Author: Chanelle Benz
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 12/12/2017
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780062490780

Product Tags:

African American & Black, Chanelle Benz, Fiction, Fiction - General, HarperCollins Publishers, Literary, Paperback, Short Stories (single author), Women

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