Tue, Nov 02
|Collected Works Bookstore
Robin McLean, Pity the Beast
In conversation with Lesley Poling-Kempes. “Not since Faulkner have I read American prose so bristling with life and particularity.” -- J.M. Coetzee
Date, Time & Location
Nov 02, 2021, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
If you plan to join us in-store, we will be taking COVID precautions - masks will be required for the duration of the program and seating will be spaced accordingly. We will be simultaneously live Zooming our events for those out of town or who would prefer it. You can register to watch it here on Zoom.
Pre-order signed copies of Pity the Beast from CW. Book publishes November 2.
'I haven't read a book this dark and frank and sublimely written in a while. Maybe since Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.' Alden Jones
Following in the footsteps of such chroniclers of American lunacy as Cormac McCarthy; Joy Williams; and Charles Portis; Robin McLean’s Pity the Beast is a mind-melting feminist Western that pins a tale of sexual violence and vengeance to a canvas stretching back to prehistory.
Millennia ago, Ginny's family ranch was all grass and rock…