
Alligator
David Ryan(Author)
C4g Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
979-8-9907275-0-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Alligator, David Ryan's experiments in language and form produce 23 stark, lyrical stories that explore the human condition. Kaleidoscopic, surprising, and occasionally shocking, Ryan's liminal realism shifts between incantatory parables and a hard-scrabble, fractured reality, rooted in the deep, visceral logic of memory, wild impulse, and dream. Alligator's stories collect desire, dislocation of family, love, and estrangement into a brutalist architecture-where occasional sharp eruptions of chaos co-exist with hope and grace.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
335 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-9907275-0-2 (9798990727502)
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Person
Author of the forthcoming Alligator (C4G Books) and winner of the 2022 and 2023 O. Henry Prize For Short Fiction, David Ryan's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Soft Union, Alaska Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Harvard Review, New England Review, The Common, The Threepenny Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Fence, Cincinnati Review, The Florida Review, The Hopkins Review, Puerto del Sol, the Potomac Review, Pinch, Tin House, Esquire, BOMB, and elsewhere.He is the author of the story collection Animals in Motion: Stories (Roundabout Press) and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano: Bookmarked (Ig). A recent Artistic Excellence Fellow with the Connecticut Office of the Arts, he teaches in the writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and in New England College's Low Residency MFA.