Labrador (novel)

Labrador
AuthorKathryn Davis
LanguageEnglish
Published1988 (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). Reprint 2019 (Graywolf Press)
Publication placeUnited States
Pages232
ISBN978-1555978303

Labrador is a 1988 novel by Kathryn Davis. It is Davis's debut novel.

Major themes

The novel deals with sibling rivalry, parental love, adult irrationality, and is a coming-of-age story about two young girls struggling with the powerful changes in their bodies and minds.[1][2]

Publication history

It was originally published in 1988 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The novel went out of print before being reissued by Graywolf Press on March 5, 2019.[3]

Literary significance and reception

John Crowley, reviewing the novel in 1988, wrote, "Kathryn Davis has taken the sad and binding stuff of many a first novel - the inescapable family, the growth into knowledge, the heavy burden of physical life and the queasy processes of becoming - and fashioned genuinely new embodiments for it."[2]

Michiko Kakutani, also reviewing the novel for The New York Times, wrote, "Ms. Davis demonstrates a formidable talent for capturing the savage confusions of youth. She is able to map out the fuzzy frontiers that exist in a child's mind between reality and fantasy and in doing so also to convey the perils of childhood and adolescence -both the real and the imagined."[4]

References

  1. ^ LABRADOR by Kathryn Davis | Kirkus Reviews.
  2. ^ a b Crowley, John (August 14, 1988). "The Angel Fell for Willie". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  3. ^ "Labrador | Graywolf Press". www.graywolfpress.org. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  4. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (July 9, 1988). "Books of The Times; Darkness Under 2 Sisters' Innocence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 29, 2019.

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