Craig Davidson, Author . Norton $23.95 (239p) ISBN 978-0-393-06129-1
A strong stomach, an open mind and a morbid sense of humor are essential to enjoying Davidson's accomplished, macabre first collection. Calamity lurks around every corner, these stories suggest, and you never know when fate will smite you—o
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Craig Davidson, Author . Soho $24 (249p) ISBN 978-1-56947-465-5
Two young men heading in opposite directions find their destinies linked by violence in Davidson's dripping-with-testosterone debut novel (following story collection Rust and Bone
). After he gets beat up at a bar, Paul Harris questions his...
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Craig Davidson, ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $15.95 paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-926851-00-6
Davidson (The Fighter) delivers a dark, dense, and often funny collection of intertwined tales that are rewarding enough to overcome their flaws. The five families in the squirrel-infested homes on the titular street are made up of broken and...
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Craig Davidson. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-55597-674-3
Childhood friends pursue lives on opposite sides of the law in this sweeping literary crime novel from Davidson (Rust and Bone). Owen Stuckey and Duncan Diggs meet as children, growing up on the streets of Cataract City, on the Canadian side of...
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Craig Davidson. Penguin, $16 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-313393-3
Davidson’s well-crafted, whimsical coming-of-age tale (after Cataract City) follows a fateful summer in the ’80s. Twelve-year-old Jake Baker navigates between being bullied and exploring mysticism in his Niagara Falls hometown. The sleepy town is...
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Craig Davidson. Norton, $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-86690-2
The six tales in Davidson’s wonderful and gritty collection return to the bucolic backdrop of Cataract City, a stand-in for Niagara Falls (and the title of Davidson’s earlier novel). Energized by a familial bond and propelled by tragedy, the opener,
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