Reptile House

Robin McLean

$16.00

Publication Date: May 12th, 2015

Publisher:

BOA Editions

ISBN:

9781938160653

Pages:

216

The Book Tavern

2 on hand, as of Sep 26 5:19pm

(Fiction::Short Stories)

On Our Shelves Now

Description

With characters trapped by blind ambitions and toxic relationships, these stories probe the dark underbelly of human nature and want.

About the Author

Robin McLean: Robin McLean was a lawyer and then a potter for 15 years in the woods of Alaska before receiving her MFA at UMass Amherst in Massachusetts. Her first collection Reptile House was a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Short Story Prize in 2011 and 2012. McLean's stories appear widely in such places as The Nashville Review, The Malahat Review, Gargoyle, and The Common and Copper Nickel, as well as the anthology American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers. A figure skater first--having learned to skate and walk at the same time--McLean believes that crashing on ice prepared her for writing fiction. She currently teaches at Clark University, and splits her time between Newfound Lake in Bristol, New Hampshire, and a 200-year-old farm in western Massachusetts.