Alexander MacLeod – författare

From O. Henry Prize winner Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection of short fiction that illuminates the perilous space between desire and action.Startling, suspenseful, and deeply humane, yet alert to the undertow of our darker instincts, the eight stories in Animal Person explore what it means to exist in the tension between wanting and doing. A petty argument between sisters is interrupted by an unexpected visitor. Adjoining motel rooms connect a family on the brink of a new life with a criminal whose legacy will haunt them for years to come. A connoisseur of secrets is undone by what he finds in a piece of lost luggage. In the wake of a tragic accident, a young man must contend with what is owed to the living and the dead. And in the award-winning story "Lagomorph," a man''s relationship with his family''s long-lived pet rabbit becomes a profound exploration of a fracturing marriage.Muscular and tender, beautifully crafted, and alive with elemental power, Animal Person beats with raw emotion and shimmers with the complexity of our shared human experience. This collection confirms Alexander MacLeod as a modern master of the short story.

Two runners race a cargo train through the darkness of a rat-infested tunnel beneath the Detroit River. A drugstore bicycle courier crosses a forbidden threshold in an attempt to save a life and a young swimmer conquers her fear of water only to discover she''s caught in far more dangerous currents. An auto-worker who loses his family in a car accident is forced to reconsider his relationship with the internal combustion engine.

Alexander MacLeod is a writer of "ferocious intelligence" and "ferocious physicality" (CTV). Light Lifting, his celebrated first collection, offers us a suite of darkly urban and unflinching elegies that explore the depths of the psyche and channel the subconscious hopes and terrors that motivate us all. These are elemental stories of work and its bonds, of tragedy and tragedy barely averted, but also of beauty, love and fragile understanding.