{"product_id":"kick-the-latch-by-kathryn-scanlan","title":"Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan","description":"\u003cp\u003eKathryn Scanlan’s \u003cspan\u003eKick the Latch\u003c\/span\u003e vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner’s circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the “particular language” of “grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards, pony people, hotwalkers, everybody”—with economy and integrity.\u003cbr\u003eBased on transcribed interviews with Sonia, a horse trainer, the novel investigates form and authenticity in a feat of synthesis reminiscent of Charles Reznikoff’s \u003cspan\u003eTestimony\u003c\/span\u003e. As Scanlan puts it, “I wanted to preserve—amplify, exaggerate—Sonia’s idiosyncratic speech, her bluntness, her flair as a storyteller. I arrived at what you could call a composite portrait of a self.” Whittled down with a fiercely singular artistry, \u003cspan\u003eKick the Latch\u003c\/span\u003e bangs out of the starting gate and carries the reader on a careening joyride around the inside track.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prismatic Pages","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52585800761655,"sku":"12439","price":169.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.prismaticpages.com\/products\/kick-the-latch-by-kathryn-scanlan","provider":"Prismatic Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}