The Rabbit Hutch
A novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about "Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny." The GuardianA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, People
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building.
An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, Indiana.
Welcome to the Rabbit Hutch.
Ethereally beautiful and formidably intelligent, Blandine shares her apartment with three teenage boys she neither likes nor understands, all, like her, now aged out of the state foster care system that has repeatedly failed them, all searching for meaning in their lives.
Set over one sweltering week in July and culminating in a bizarre act of violence that finally changes everything, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America, a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and longing, entrapment and, ultimately, freedom.
"Gunty writes with a keen, sensitive eye about all manner of intimacies the kind we build with other people, and the kind we cultivate around ourselves and our tenuous, private aspirations." Raven Leilani, author of Luster
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Chapter 1The Opposite of Nothing
On a hot night in Apartment C4, Blandine Watkins exits her body. She is only eighteen years old, but she has spent most of her life wishing for this to happen. The agony is sweet, as the mystics promised. It s like your soul is being stabbed with light, the mystics said, and they were right about that, too. The mystics call this experience the Transverberation of the Heart, or the Seraph s Assault, but no angel appears to Blandine. There is, however, a bioluminescent man in his fifties, glowing like a firefly. He runs to her and yells.
Knife, cotton, hoof, bleach, pain, fur, bliss as Blandine exits herself, she is all of it. She is every tenant of her apartment building. She is trash and cherub, a rubber shoe on the seafloor, her father s orange jumpsuit, a brush raking through her mother s hair. The first and last Zorn Automobile factory in Vacca Vale, Indiana. A nucleus inside the man who robbed her body when she was fourteen, a pair of red glasses on the face of her favorite librarian, a radish tugged from a bed of dirt. She is no one. She is Katy the Portuguese water dog, who licked her face whenever the foster family banished them both in the snow because they were in the way. An algorithm for amplified content and a blue slushee from the gas station. The first pair of tap shoes on the feet of a child actress and the man telling her to try harder. She is the smartphone that films her as she bleeds on the floorboards of her apartment, and she is the chipped nail polish on the teenager who assembled the ninetieth step of that phone on a green factory floor in Shenzhen, China. An American satellite, a bad word, the ring on the finger of her high school theater director. She is every cottontail rabbit grazing on the vegetation of her supposedly dying city. Ten minutes of pleasure igniting between the people who made her, the final tablet of oxycodone on her mother s tongue, the gavel that will sentence the boys to prison
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for what they re doing to Blandine right now. There is no such thing as right now. She is not another young woman wounded on the floor, body slashed by men for its resources no. She is paying attention. She is the last laugh.
On that hot night in Apartment C4, when Blandine Watkins exits her body, she is not everything. Not exactly. She s just the opposite of nothing.
All Together, Now
C12: On Wednesday night, in the nine o clock hour, the man who lives four floors above the crime is staring into an app called: Rate Your Date (Mature Users!). The app glows a deep red, and he is certain that there is no one inside it. Like many men who have weathered female rejection, the man in Apartment C12 believes that women have more power than anyone else on the planet. When evidence suggests that this can t be true, he gets angry. It is an anger unique to those who have committed themselves to a losing argument. The man now in his sixties lies on his sheets in the dark. He is done with the day, but the day is not done with itself; it is still too early to sleep. He is a logger, past his professional expiration date but lacking both the financial and psychological savings to retire. Often, he feels the weight of phantom lumber on his back like a child. Often, he feels the weight of a phantom child on his back like lumber. Since his wife died six years ago, the apartment has seemed empty of furniture, but it is, in fact, congested with furniture. Sweating, the man cradles his large, bright screen in his hands.
nice enuf, like a dad, but fatter then his prof pic. his eye contact = wrong. doesnt ask about u and seems obsessed w/ the prices. velcro wallet, user MelBell23 had commented on his profile two weeks ago. smells like gary indiana. ssuuu
The only other comment on his profile was posted six months ago, by DeniseDaBeast: this man is a tator tot. suuuu
On that hot night in Apartment C4, when Blandine Watkins exits her body, she is not everything. Not exactly. She s just the opposite of nothing.
All Together, Now
C12: On Wednesday night, in the nine o clock hour, the man who lives four floors above the crime is staring into an app called: Rate Your Date (Mature Users!). The app glows a deep red, and he is certain that there is no one inside it. Like many men who have weathered female rejection, the man in Apartment C12 believes that women have more power than anyone else on the planet. When evidence suggests that this can t be true, he gets angry. It is an anger unique to those who have committed themselves to a losing argument. The man now in his sixties lies on his sheets in the dark. He is done with the day, but the day is not done with itself; it is still too early to sleep. He is a logger, past his professional expiration date but lacking both the financial and psychological savings to retire. Often, he feels the weight of phantom lumber on his back like a child. Often, he feels the weight of a phantom child on his back like lumber. Since his wife died six years ago, the apartment has seemed empty of furniture, but it is, in fact, congested with furniture. Sweating, the man cradles his large, bright screen in his hands.
nice enuf, like a dad, but fatter then his prof pic. his eye contact = wrong. doesnt ask about u and seems obsessed w/ the prices. velcro wallet, user MelBell23 had commented on his profile two weeks ago. smells like gary indiana. ssuuu
The only other comment on his profile was posted six months ago, by DeniseDaBeast: this man is a tator tot. suuuu
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Autoren-Porträt von Tess Gunty
TESS GUNTY earned an MFA in creative writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Joyland, Los Angeles Review of Books, No Tokens, Flash, and elsewhere. She was raised in South Bend, Indiana, and lives in Los Angeles.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tess Gunty
- 2022, 352 Seiten, Maße: 16,7 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: KNOPF
- ISBN-10: 0593534662
- ISBN-13: 9780593534663
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.01.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, Literary Hub, Kirkus A People Top 10 Book of The Year A Bookpage Top 10 Book of the YearMesmerizing . . . A novel of impressive scope and specificity . . . One of the pleasures of the narrative is the way it luxuriates in language, all the rhythms and repetitions and seashell whorls of meaning to be extracted from the dull casings of everyday life. . . . [Gunty] also has a way of pressing her thumb on the frailty and absurdity of being a person in the world; all the soft, secret needs and strange intimacies. The book s best sentences and there are heaps to choose from ping with that recognition, even in the ordinary details. Leah Greenblatt, The New York Times Book Review
The most promising first novel I ve read this year . . . A feeling of genuine crisis . . . propels the narrative through its many twists to the catharsis of its bizarre ending. Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
"[The Rabbit Hutch] paints a picture of its location...you can get to know everything...history, people, and minutiae... It s a brilliant meditation on how much we don t know about our nearest neighbors, and how the places we live can bring us together or tear us apart." Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic
Ambitious . . . Despite offering a dissection of contemporary urban blight, the novel doesn t let social concerns crowd out the individuality of its characters, and Blandine s off-kilter brilliance is central to the achievement. The New Yorker
Transcendent . . . Compelling and startlingly beautiful . . . Gunty weaves these stories together with skill and subtlety. Clea Simon, The Boston Globe
Riveting . . . The Rabbit Hutch balances the
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banal and the ecstatic in a way that made me think of prime David Foster Wallace. It s a story of love, told without sentimentality; a story of cruelty, told without gratuitousness. Gunty is a captivating writer. Sarah Ditum, The Guardian
Original and incisive . . . This is an important American novel, a portrait of a dying city and, by extension, a dying system. Its propulsive power is not only in its insight and wit, but in the story of this ethereal girl. . . . She is so vibrantly alive and awake that when I finished this book, I wanted to feel that. I wanted to walk outside. I wanted what is real. I wanted to wake up. Tess Gunty s The Rabbit Hutch is breathtaking, compassionate and spectacular. Una Mannion, The Irish Times
A powerful and brutal book, brimming with dark and funny lines . . . Gunty s true subject, though, is a land of loneliness, squandered potential and exploitation that feels uniquely American and also the human interconnections and strokes of luck that can help us survive it. Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times
This seriously impressive debut novel about the inhabitants of a low-rent apartment block in small-town Indiana thrillingly blends the vivid realism and comic experimentalism so beloved of American fiction. The writing is incandescent, the range of styles and voices remarkable. . . . There s so much dazzling stuff here, it can be hard to know where to look. . . . What lingers is something simple: the sparkling interiority of its characters. Robert Collins, The Sunday Times (London)
Just when everything seemed designed for a brief moment of utility before its planned obsolescence, here comes The Rabbit Hutch, a profoundly wise, wildly inventive, deeply moving work of art whose seemingly infinite offerings will remain with you long after you finish it. Each page of this novel contains a novel, a world. Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated
The Rabbit Hutch aches, bleeds, and even scars but it also forgives with laughter, with insight, and finally, through an act of generational independence that remains this novel s greatest accomplishment, with an act of rescue, rescue of narrative, rescue from ritual, rescue of heart, the rescue of tomorrow. Mark Z. Danielewski, author of House of Leaves
Philosophical, and earthy, and tender and also simply very fun to read Tess Gunty is a distinctive talent, with a generous and gently brilliant mind. Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
An astonishing portrait . . . Gunty delves into the stories of Blandine s neighbors, brilliantly and achingly charting the range of their experiences. . . . It all ties together, achieving this first novelist s maximalist ambitions and making powerful use of language along the way. Readers will be breathless. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Darkly funny, surprising, and mesmerizing . . . A stunning and original debut that is as smart as it is entertaining . . . Gunty pans swiftly from room to room, perspective to perspective, molding a story that . . . is extremely suspenseful and culminates in a finale that will leave readers breathless. With sharp prose and startling imagery, the novel touches on subjects from environmental trauma to rampant consumerism to sexual power dynamics to mysticism to mental illness, all with an astonishing wisdom and imaginativeness. . . . A striking and wise depiction of what it means to be awake and alive in a dying building, city, nation, and world. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Original and incisive . . . This is an important American novel, a portrait of a dying city and, by extension, a dying system. Its propulsive power is not only in its insight and wit, but in the story of this ethereal girl. . . . She is so vibrantly alive and awake that when I finished this book, I wanted to feel that. I wanted to walk outside. I wanted what is real. I wanted to wake up. Tess Gunty s The Rabbit Hutch is breathtaking, compassionate and spectacular. Una Mannion, The Irish Times
A powerful and brutal book, brimming with dark and funny lines . . . Gunty s true subject, though, is a land of loneliness, squandered potential and exploitation that feels uniquely American and also the human interconnections and strokes of luck that can help us survive it. Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times
This seriously impressive debut novel about the inhabitants of a low-rent apartment block in small-town Indiana thrillingly blends the vivid realism and comic experimentalism so beloved of American fiction. The writing is incandescent, the range of styles and voices remarkable. . . . There s so much dazzling stuff here, it can be hard to know where to look. . . . What lingers is something simple: the sparkling interiority of its characters. Robert Collins, The Sunday Times (London)
Just when everything seemed designed for a brief moment of utility before its planned obsolescence, here comes The Rabbit Hutch, a profoundly wise, wildly inventive, deeply moving work of art whose seemingly infinite offerings will remain with you long after you finish it. Each page of this novel contains a novel, a world. Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated
The Rabbit Hutch aches, bleeds, and even scars but it also forgives with laughter, with insight, and finally, through an act of generational independence that remains this novel s greatest accomplishment, with an act of rescue, rescue of narrative, rescue from ritual, rescue of heart, the rescue of tomorrow. Mark Z. Danielewski, author of House of Leaves
Philosophical, and earthy, and tender and also simply very fun to read Tess Gunty is a distinctive talent, with a generous and gently brilliant mind. Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
An astonishing portrait . . . Gunty delves into the stories of Blandine s neighbors, brilliantly and achingly charting the range of their experiences. . . . It all ties together, achieving this first novelist s maximalist ambitions and making powerful use of language along the way. Readers will be breathless. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Darkly funny, surprising, and mesmerizing . . . A stunning and original debut that is as smart as it is entertaining . . . Gunty pans swiftly from room to room, perspective to perspective, molding a story that . . . is extremely suspenseful and culminates in a finale that will leave readers breathless. With sharp prose and startling imagery, the novel touches on subjects from environmental trauma to rampant consumerism to sexual power dynamics to mysticism to mental illness, all with an astonishing wisdom and imaginativeness. . . . A striking and wise depiction of what it means to be awake and alive in a dying building, city, nation, and world. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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