Filthy Animals - Brandon Taylor - 2021
By: Brandon Taylor
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, Nicole Lewis, TL Thompson
Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-22-21
Language: English
Categories: Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Brandon Taylor is:
“A powerhouse.” (Newsweek)
“An extraordinary cartographer.” (Esquire)
“A striking new voice with a vital perspective.” (Harper’s Bazaar)
“A brilliant writer.” (Garth Greenwell)
Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O: The Oprah Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, Vulture, Thrillist, The Week, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, The Millions, and Paperback Paris.
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction from the author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life.
In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty.
One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as “a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways”. With Filthy Animals, he renews and expands on the promise made in Real Life, training his precise and unsentimental gaze on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others. Psychologically taut and quietly devastating, Filthy Animals is a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.
©2021 Brandon Taylor (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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