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The sensational new story collection from one of our sharpest, most original, and daringly cinematic stylists, and a National Book Award finalist, Christine Schutt
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"Pure Hollywood is pure gold."--Ottessa MoshfeghThe sensational new story collection from one of our sharpest, most original, and daringly cinematic stylists, National Book Award finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt. In one eponymous novella and ten stories, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, from a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn, love and hurt. With Pure Hollywood Christine Schutt gives us sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives, infused with her signature observation and surprise. Timeless, incisive, and precise, these tales are a rush of blood to the head, portals through which we open our eyes and see the world anew.
Author Biography
CHRISTINE SCHUTT is the author of two collections of stories, Nightwork and A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer. She is also the author of the novels Prosperous Friends, Florida, a National Book Award finalist, and All Souls, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Review
Praise for Pure Hollywood "Think Gatsby with a twist of Didion."--BBC.com "A book of long and short stories from one of our most distinctive prose stylists, Pure Hollywood captures several recognizable sorts of American landscapes and renders them and the people who wander through them in entirely new light."--New York, "The Best Books of the Year So Far" "Wherever your literary comfort zone is, the chances are that Christine Schutt is outside it...The stories in this collection evade easy capture - but in reading, isn't the pursuit part of the pleasure?"--The Guardian "Schutt writes stories that don't have an ounce of melodrama in them--they feel unusually alive and honest--and few writers capture bereavement with Schutt's precision and elegance." -Oprah.com "A wisp of a book, as rich as it is thin...[Schutt] might well be called a story whisperer. She casts startling, jagged turns of phrase and coaxes stories from an accumulation of details. A sense of menace permeates this book, as accidents, misfortune and death amass from one story to the next. Yet even the darkest themes are rarely weighty with prose so nimble and offhand glints of humor. While Schutt is known as a stylist, she's also a purveyor of suspense this time around. The result is that these moody, often prickly, stories can veer into unexpected territory, keeping us on our toes."--Joan Silverman, Portland Press Herald "In this book, perhaps the best of her career, she has drawn together her various talents and methodologies into something singular." -3am Magazine "Schutt's distinct and economic style is on full display throughout this slim collection...Schutt offers surprising reminders of the ghastly and gruesome that are never too far away...Intimate portrayals of darkness told in Schutt's tight and affecting prose."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Nobody writes like Schutt, the National Book Award-finalist author of Florida, and her latest collection is the perfect entry point for readers new to her work. ...Schutt is always in control in this work by an experimental American writer of unparalleled style."--Publishers Weekly "Schutt's short stories portray flawed characters wrestling with resentment, loneliness, and mortality. ...Schutt's restrained, provoking tales hold detailed impressions at arm's length, as it were, leaving readers to explore life's uneasy truths viewed through an unrelenting lens."--Booklist"Christine Schutt is already easily among the liveliest stylists of our time, and these eleven stories prove we ain't seen nothing yet. Each is a wonder, pickled in her crystalline idiom and cured under her brutal, astonishing wit."--Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus "In Pure Hollywood, the genius of Christine Schutt's prose is as mysterious and undeniable as ever, its brilliance all the more remarkable for the darkness it explores, the disturbing realities it illuminates. Her soul-sick characters stalk and haunt your heart every bit as much as Flannery O'Connor's. But even as she unnerves us, Schutt's fiction renders more light, more life, more beauty. Don't be fooled by its size. This book is a masterwork that hits way harder than its weight class, and achieves what great fiction always achieves--it commands us to be aware."--Matt Sumell, author of Making Nice "Pure Hollywood is pure gold. In tales of rare wit and verve, Christine Schutt leads us into the lives of her perfectly drawn characters--couples young and old, children, skinny men, charming women--and dances on masterful prose through gardens, alcohol (often too much), luxurious homes, and resort vacation spots. Come for the art of her exquisitely weird writing and stay for the human drama. I loved each story--the quick flashes as well as the longer stories. Each one damaged my composure as a reader and fascinated me as a writer. Bravo!"--Ottessa Moshfegh, author of Eileen and Homesick for Another World Praise for Christine Schutt "A truly gifted writer."--George Saunders "Schutt demands our meditation, our intimate consideration, our awe."--Jayne Anne Phillips "Among the best writers of our time." --Kate Walbert
Review Quote
Praise for Pure Hollywood "Think Gatsby with a twist of Didion."-- BBC.com "A book of long and short stories from one of our most distinctive prose stylists, Pure Hollywood captures several recognizable sorts of American landscapes and renders them and the people who wander through them in entirely new light."-- New York, "The Best Books of the Year So Far" "Wherever your literary comfort zone is, the chances are that Christine Schutt is outside it...The stories in this collection evade easy capture - but in reading, isn''t the pursuit part of the pleasure?"-- The Guardian "Schutt writes stories that don''t have an ounce of melodrama in them--they feel unusually alive and honest--and few writers capture bereavement with Schutt''s precision and elegance." - Oprah.com "A wisp of a book, as rich as it is thin...[Schutt] might well be called a story whisperer. She casts startling, jagged turns of phrase and coaxes stories from an accumulation of details. A sense of menace permeates this book, as accidents, misfortune and death amass from one story to the next. Yet even the darkest themes are rarely weighty with prose so nimble and offhand glints of humor. While Schutt is known as a stylist, she''s also a purveyor of suspense this time around. The result is that these moody, often prickly, stories can veer into unexpected territory, keeping us on our toes."--Joan Silverman, Portland Press Herald "In this book, perhaps the best of her career, she has drawn together her various talents and methodologies into something singular." - 3am Magazine "Schutt''s distinct and economic style is on full display throughout this slim collection...Schutt offers surprising reminders of the ghastly and gruesome that are never too far away...Intimate portrayals of darkness told in Schutt''s tight and affecting prose."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Nobody writes like Schutt, the National Book Award-finalist author of Florida , and her latest collection is the perfect entry point for readers new to her work. ...Schutt is always in control in this work by an experimental American writer of unparalleled style."--Publishers Weekly "Schutt''s short stories portray flawed characters wrestling with resentment, loneliness, and mortality. ...Schutt''s restrained, provoking tales hold detailed impressions at arm''s length, as it were, leaving readers to explore life''s uneasy truths viewed through an unrelenting lens."--Booklist "Christine Schutt is already easily among the liveliest stylists of our time, and these eleven stories prove we ain''t seen nothing yet. Each is a wonder, pickled in her crystalline idiom and cured under her brutal, astonishing wit."-- Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus "In Pure Hollywood , the genius of Christine Schutt''s prose is as mysterious and undeniable as ever, its brilliance all the more remarkable for the darkness it explores, the disturbing realities it illuminates. Her soul-sick characters stalk and haunt your heart every bit as much as Flannery O''Connor''s. But even as she unnerves us, Schutt''s fiction renders more light, more life, more beauty. Don''t be fooled by its size. This book is a masterwork that hits way harder than its weight class, and achieves what great fiction always achieves--it commands us to be aware."--Matt Sumell, author of Making Nice " Pure Hollywood is pure gold. In tales of rare wit and verve, Christine Schutt leads us into the lives of her perfectly drawn characters--couples young and old, children, skinny men, charming women--and dances on masterful prose through gardens, alcohol (often too much), luxurious homes, and resort vacation spots. Come for the art of her exquisitely weird writing and stay for the human drama. I loved each story--the quick flashes as well as the longer stories. Each one damaged my composure as a reader and fascinated me as a writer. Bravo!"-- Ottessa Moshfegh , author of Eileen and Homesick for Another World Praise for Christine Schutt "A truly gifted writer."--George Saunders "Schutt demands our meditation, our intimate consideration, our awe."--Jayne Anne Phillips "Among the best writers of our time." --Kate Walbert
Excerpt from Book
The late afternoon sky he saw was the same Mimi saw leeched of all its color. Mimi, with her eyes stung from the smoke or crying or both, drew the drapes and turned on a downstairs light, a small flame in the gloom of the mostly bare and sunken living room. The Eames chair--her husband's--startled her: where had it been that she had not seen it? Then her lawyer, good on his word, called, and she learned what she already knew: nothing was hers. Briefly sober, she called Stetson's cell to say she wasn't going to drink anymore and she wished he would come back. She didn't like to be alone in the house. "I want to get better. I want to get over this. I wish you'd pick up," she said, then blipped off hurt to think he hadn't even answered a call with her name She fixed herself more of the same and lowered the blinds in the kitchen and in the dining room to spy on the gardener as he moved around the house. His expression was hard to make out, but she watched him wrestle the hose into a terra cotta pot; the hose must have weighed more than he did, poor man. When she thought he might come to the front door, Mimi took off her mules and crept through the house up the floating staircase to what she had made into her bedroom where she hid between the bed and the wall.
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Esteemed writer Christine Schutt returns with a startlingly bold collection of stories that delve into the private lives and worlds of well-kept Americans whose groomed facades belie betrayals, obsessions, and the darkest of human tendencies. Like Salinger's Nine Stories , Joyce's Dubliners , and the best stories of Katherine Mansfield, Pure Hollywood is a seminal collection--one with the capacity to change the landscape of the form. Claire Vaye Watkins, Otessa Moshfegh, and Matt Summell have already promised blurbs Schutt's last novel Prosperous Friends received stunning praise from the Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Star-Tribune (Minneapolis), and the Washington Post. Schutt's writing has been compared in the press to that of Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Anton Chekhov, Henry James, Eugene O'Neill, Eudora Welty, Emily Dickinson, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. A two-time winner of the O. Henry Prize for Fiction, Schutt is also a recipient of New York Foundation of the Arts and Guggenheim Fellowships and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in Harper's, The Kenyon Review, and Noon, for which she's a founding editor. Our success with Difficult Women and The Refugees bodes well for stories by writers of a certain stature.
Details ISBN0802129226 Author Christine Schutt Short Title PURE HOLLYWOOD Pages 144 Language English ISBN-10 0802129226 ISBN-13 9780802129222 Format Paperback DEWEY 813.54 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-02-19 Subtitle And Other Stories Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2019-02-19 NZ Release Date 2019-02-19 US Release Date 2019-02-19 UK Release Date 2019-02-19 Publisher Black Cat Imprint Black Cat Audience General We've got this
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