WINNER of the Danuta Gleed Award for Canada's Best Debut Fiction Collection
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth First Book Prize
Shortlisted for the ReLit Prize
I'm Nathan Sellyn, the author of Indigenous Beasts, published by Raincoast Books here in Canada and - in 2008 - by Albin Michel in France.
You can buy it at Chapters , on Amazon, the whole deal. Check out my blog for a sample.
Some reviews
"Sellyn writes like Alice Munro, well, like Alice Munro would if she was a testosterone-driven young man and had chug-a-lugged a gallon of espresso."
-The Edmonton Journal
"An impressive debut. These are powerful stories, suspenseful and unpredictable, aimed for the jugular."
-Joyce Carol Oates
"Unflinching. Angry. Honest and original. Sometimes even bizarre. But Nathan Sellyn's stories are far more than that. Boys learning the brutality of growing up, and full-grown men trying to come to terms with the youth they've lost. Young Sellyn's stories are shockingly good. This is a fine, fine first collection with a dark heart. And Sellyn is a writer at the start of a great career."
-Joseph Boyden, author of Three-Day Road
"Indigenous Beasts announces a talent that could go in any
number of enticing directions, and run as long and as far as the writer
wants to drive it."
-The Montreal Gazette
"Nathan Sellyn manages to put some lovely words into the
mouths of the men in his first collection of stories. And theres nary a
metrosexual or yoga devotee among them."
-The Georgia Straight
"Sellyn's strength is his ability to focus on the darker and often violent and bizzare undertones inherent in the world around us."
-The Calgary Herald
"Sellyn has a real talent that has not been tamed by the endless workshopping of a creative-writing degree. ... Since Mordecai Richler's death, nobody has picked up the mantle of English-language satire. Could Sellyn, a former Montrealer, be the one?"
-The Winnipeg Free Press***
"A stylish debut with originality and flair to spare."
-The Vancouver Sun
"Shocking and gritty? Hell, yes. Bitterly funny and
insightful... At first glance, Indigenous Beasts may be too abrasive for some. But
beneath the blood and guts lies the promise of a very exciting Canadian
writer."
-The Victoria Times Colonist
"You make all the fathers look like assholes."
-My father
"The stories are bloody and real... funny, strange, and smart."
-The Globe & Mail***
***Actually a scathing review that I pulled a positive quote from.
