Amelia Gray

Cinquante façons de manger son amant

Gutshot

October 8, 2020
Novel
216 pages
140 × 185 mm
19 €
9782377560783
978-2-3775-6078-3
Translated from the American by Nathalie Bru
																Amelia Gray, Cinquante façons de manger son amant
																Amelia Gray, Cinquante façons de manger son amant

Between laughter and fear, horror and tenderness, the 38 stories that make up Gutshot are jewels of originality and finesse that will never end to haunt you.

A woman crawls through the pipes of a silent house. Surgery upgrades an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a city. In Gutshot, Amelia Gray explores once again the incredible cabinet of curiosities that serves her as an imaginary, and offers us stories that seem to vibrate with a life of their own, animated by a humanity and a sense of humor out of the ordinary. These short stories are gems of black humor and imagination, reminding the reader how our world can be strange, cruel, and beautiful.

Amelia Gray has a unique talent for short stories, more precisely for the short form, of which she masters the art of rhythm. More than work on the surprise, on the fall, she is able, in three pages, to create an atmosphere that we have never seen elsewhere.

At the center of these texts, a surgical writing, a sharp sense of balance between the real and the strange, and especially the body.These bodies, therefore, awkward, crazy, strange and powerful, our bodies, so often absent from the literature but which are in the center of the imagination deployed by Amelia Gray.

The author

Amelia Gray is the author of five books, including recently Isadora (FSG). Her fictional texts and essays have been published by The White Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and VICE, among others. She was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel Threats (Ogre 2019, transl. Théophile Sersiron). Amelia Gray’s writing is informed by her acclaimed work as a screenwriter for the Mr. Robot and Maniac series. She lives in Los Angeles.

Press

“Top ten short story collections of the decade alongside Alice Munro and George Saunders.”

Literary Hub.

“Amelia Gray pushes the limits of what humans can and want to do. She seems to be constantly testing the reader. You are ready to accompany me until here? And there, a little bit further? Are you still playing?”

Ramona Ausubel, The New York Times Book Review.
October 8, 2020
Novel
216 pages
140 × 185 mm
19 €
9782377560783
978-2-3775-6078-3
Translated from the American by Nathalie Bru