Kathryn Scanlan's novel "Pitstart": Every other Monday the knacker comes - review
The book gives a true insight into a milieu that would otherwise remain closed to us. It was awarded for its innovative form. The critics.
Kathryn Scanlan writes: “There is a lot of suffering and drug abuse among horse people.” dpa
The basis for the novel "Pit Start", which is told in short chapters and speaks in a characteristic, succinct voice, were conversations with Sonia, a groom for racehorses. The author Kathryn Scanlan, born in 1980 in Iowa and raised in the country, provides information about these recorded conversations in a brief afterword. And she thanks her mother, who introduced her to Sonia. Scanlan received the Gordon Burn Prize for innovative literature last year for "Pit Start" and its unusual form.
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