Craig Davidson

Con prosa quirúrgica, Craig Davidson conjura un mundo salvaje poblado por peleas de perros, adictos al sexo y jugadores descontrolados. «La mano de un boxeador tiene veintisiete huesos; una vez roto

Cataract City, a dead-end border town overlooking Niagara Falls. Owen Stuckey and Duncan Diggs are fast friends as kids - united by wrestling, go-karts, and metal bands - but as they grow into young men, their once simple affection competes with the tensions created by their respective circumstances. Owen, born to relative privilege, seems destined to get out of the city, while Duncan, honest but hard, is hurtling along the rails towards a future working the assembly line at the soulless biscuit factory, The Bisk. As Duncan becomes more and more desperate to escape, he finds himself at opposite ends of the law to Owen, and as the coils of the city creep ever tighter around the two friends, they find themselves struggling not to break free, but simply to survive.

« Je connais deux garçons qui suivent un sentier secret pour aller pêcher des perches dans le bassin du Niagara, leurs cannes à lépaule comme des carabines. Je connais le flot sans fin des chutes qui

1979, Herbert et Jess, frère et soeur abandonnés dans leur enfance par un père magicien, sont élevés par leur oncle. 25 ans plus tard, Herbert, le grand magicien déchu, ne sort plus de chez lui. Jess

Après le succès dUn goût de rouille et dos, le jeune écrivain canadien ne dément pas sa réputation avec ce roman qui explore lidentité masculine contemporaine à travers le portrait sombre et mélancol

Cataract City, a dead-end border town overlooking Niagara Falls. Owen Stuckey and Duncan Diggs are fast friends as kids - united by wrestling, go-karts, and metal bands - but as they grow into young men, their once simple affection competes with the tensions created by their respective circumstances. Owen, born to relative privilege, seems destined to get out of the city, while Duncan, honest but hard, is hurtling along the rails towards a future working the assembly line at the soulless biscuit factory, The Bisk. As Duncan becomes more and more desperate to escape, he finds himself at opposite ends of the law to Owen, and as the coils of the city creep ever tighter around the two friends, they find themselves struggling not to break free, but to simply survive.

Fans of Palahniuk and Irvine Welsh will relish the graphic fight sequences and gritty social commentary.Rocky Mountain NewsHow to Allocate Your Free Time This Month[:] Devouring Craig Davidsons gruesome debut novel, The Fighter.EsquireThis is more than a stunning debut. It reminds me how vacuous, banal and insipid most highly-touted fiction is. Craig Davidson asksand answerssome big, uncomfortable questions about the nature of our humanity. The Fighter is an essential novel, destined for cult status at the very least.Irvine Welsh While the novels brutal fights will entice readers of other virile allegories like Chuck Palahniuks Fight Club, Davidsons story takes a more nuanced, realistic approach.Kirkus ReviewsEverything has been handed to Paul Harris, the son of a wealthy southern Ontario businessman. But after a vicious beating shakes his world, he descends into the realm of hardcore bodybuilders and boxing gyms, seeking to become a real man, reveling in suffering. Rob Tully, a working-class teenager from upstate New York, is a born boxer. He trains with his father and uncle, who believe a gift like his can change their lives, but he struggles under the weight of their expectations. Inevitably, these two young mens paths will cross. Craig Davidson was born in Toronto and now lives in Calgary, Alberta. He is the author of the acclaimed short story collection Rust and Bone, which was published by W.W. Norton in the United States, Penguin in Canada, Albin Michel in France, and Picador in the United Kingdom.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARDS From the bestselling author of The Saturday Night Ghost Club and Canada Reads-finalist Precious Cargo comes this supremely satisfying collection of stories.Reminiscent of Stephen Kings brilliantly cinematic short stories that went on to inspire films such as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, heres a collection crackling with Craig Davidsons superb craft and kinetic energy: in the visceral, crystalline, steel-tipped prose; in the psychological perspicacity; and in the endearing humour.Set in in the Niagara Falls of Davidsons imagination known as "Cataract City," the superb stories of Cascade shine a shimmering light on this slightly seedy, slightly magical, slightly haunted place. The six gems in this collection each illuminate familial relationships in a singular way: A mother and her infant son fight to survive a car-crash in a remote wintry landscape outside of town. Fraternal twins at a juvenile detention center reach a dangerous crisis point in their entwined lives. A pregnant social worker grapples with the prospect of parenthood as a custody case takes a dire turn. A hard-boiled ex-firefighter goes after a serial arsonist with a flair for the theatrical even as his own troubled sister is drawn towards the flames. These are just some of the unforgettable characters animating this stellar collection of tales--Davidsons first in 15 years, since Rust and Bone, which inspired a Golden Globe-nominated film.

Le nouveau film de Jacques Audiard, adaptation de deux nouvelles de Craig Davidson, est sorti le 17 mai 2012 et fait partie de la slection officielle du 65me festival de Cannes, avec dans les rles principaux : Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts (rvl dans le rcent Bullhead), Cline Sallette et Bouli Lanners.Dans la ligne dcrivains comme Chuck Palahniuk et Thom Jones, Craig Davidson aime prendre des risques. A la duret de son univers, il allie lmotion et la compassion quil manifeste envers ses personnages dont il sonde les corps, les mes et les coeurs avec une redoutable efficacit. Son criture, viscrale et percutante, sempare littralement du lecteur pour ne plus le lcher. Ces formidables nouvelles sont les meilleures que jai lues depuis bien longtemps. Il y a l matire une douzaine de romans... Croyez-moi, vous navez jamais rien lu de tel. Bret Easton Ellis

SOME TOWNS ARE MORE HAUNTED THAN OTHERS...An irresistible and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of Stranger Things and Stand by Me about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends"A celebration of the secret lives of children, both their wonders and their horrors . . . Immensely enjoyable, piercingly clever, and satisfyingly soulful." -Jason Heller, NPRGrowing up in 1980s Niagara Falls - a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place - Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turns twelve, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and so Calvin decides to initiate them all into the "Saturday Night Ghost Club." But as the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly light-hearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined. With the alternating warmth and sadness of the best coming-of-age stories, The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the haunting mutability of memory and storytelling, as well as the experiences that form the people we become, and establishes Craig Davidson as a remarkable literary talent.

When a pair of fighters step into an illegal ring, sometimes only one walks out. This is the story of two men from radically different backgrounds, but with one thing in common. For Rob, its a question of talent and duty. For Paul, its one of fear. In the bloody world of bare-knuckle boxing the stakes are mercilessly high. Testing the difficult relationships between fathers and their sons, The Fighter explores the lengths to which these men are driven for self-knowledge, and the depths they will plumb in order to belong.

Rust and Bone conjures a savage world of prizefighters, gamblers and sex addicts; dogs fight to the death and bare-knuckled men fight for survival on the most extreme margins. And yet these gritty stories are tempered by gentleness, the quiet understanding in the most intimate relationships. A whale trainers accident, a boys life endangered where human vulnerability is so close to the surface, the humanity of these characters heralds redemption and hope.