Bobcat and Other Stories

Author(s): Rebecca Lee

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At turns heartbreaking and wise, tender and wry, Bobcat and Other Stories establishes Rebecca Lee as one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary fiction. A university student on her summer abroad is offered the unusual task of arranging a friend's marriage. Secret infidelities and one guest's dubious bobcat-related injury propel a Manhattan dinner party to its unexpected conclusion. Students at an elite architecture retreat seek the wisdom of their revered mentor but end up learning more about themselves and one another than about their shared craft. In these acutely observed and scaldingly honest stories Lee gives us characters who are complex and flawed, cracking open their fragile beliefs and exposing the paradoxes that lie within their romantic and intellectual pursuits. Whether they're in the countryside of the American Midwest, on a dusty prairie road in Saskatchewan, or among the skyscrapers and voluptuous hills of Hong Kong, the terrain is never as difficult to navigate as their own histories and desires.

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* Extract to be placed in magazines such as Kill Your Darlings and Harbour View * Review coverage in broadsheet newspapers in Australia and New Zealand * Review coverage in weekly magazines such as the Big Issue and the Listener * Review coverage in women's glossy magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Metro and Australian Women's Weekly * Wide review coverage online * National radio interviews to be scheduled * Print and online advertising in literary and current affairs publications such as Big Issue, ABR and on their associated websites * Print and online advertising in independent literary magazines such as Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Island Magazine * Promotions and giveaways with targeted subscriber groups, including book lovers such as CAE and Good Reading * Budget for bookseller catalogues * One standout story from the collection to be circulated via social media and featured on Text and bookseller websites (also attached to the disc)

'Bobcat and Other Stories is nothing short of brilliant. Rebecca Lee writes with the unflinching, cumulatively devastating precision of Chekhov and Munro, peeling back layer after layer of illusion until we're left with the truth of ourselves ... This extraordinary story collection is sure to confirm its author as one of the best writers of her generation.' Ben Fountain, author of Billy Flynn's Long Halftime Walk 'Mesmirisingly strange...Full of shivers and frissions...highly imaginative stories...[Lee's] eccentric eloquence...makes Bobcat so potent and powerful.' New York Times 'In all these stories, confused, sometimes misdirected men and women struggle to figure out their places in the world, stumble into often unhappy situations and sometimes, to their great misfortune, get exactly what they were hoping for...Lee captures little pieces of all of us and she does it in language so delicate and precise that you'll re-read passages for the joy of it. ' Star Tribune 'Slim, sly and brilliant.' Oprah.com 'Lee writes with an unflinching eye toward the darkest and saddest aspects of life, often finding humor where least expected. This fresh, provocative collection, peerless in its vehement elucidation of contemporary foibles, is not to be missed. ' Publisher's Weekly 'This is a potent, quietly daring and sturdily imagined collection, rich with a subtlety in short supply in our current short-fiction landscape, where writers seem to settle for lobbing verbal grenades in the reader's general direction. In stories like "Bobcat" and "Fialta," there is the real sense of significance, as though a whole subway system's worth of meaning is roaring beneath the text, ready to whisk the reader anywhere they need to go.' National Post 'Make some room in your tote bag for this [book] by a prodigiously talented writer, Rebecca Lee. Her work is at once effortless and exacting, sophisticated and ribald.' Denver Post

General Fields

  • : 9781922182319
  • : Text Publishing Co
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : May 2014
  • : 198mm X 128mm
  • : Australia
  • : June 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 256
  • : Jul-14
  • : Paperback
  • : Rebecca Lee