The Reverse Cowgirl

Keen, intense, darkly comic, and accident-prone, the short fictions of David Whitton are full of sullen underdogs: his characters clean up real nice, but can't help but unravel back to their original fallen and fascinating selves. Their mistakes and misdeeds, temptations and transgressions trample through these stories, twisting out intricate surprises at each turn.

Whitton navigates contemporary and future, real life and fantasy worlds, continually setting up, if only to send up, modern romantic scenarios. Ultimately, if the boy does get the girl--or vise versa--whether they meet online or on acid, at a wedding or in battle, the object of affection always topples from the pedestal in radical and delightfully refreshing ways.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: FreeHand Books
Published: 10/01/2011
ISBN: 9781554810628
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.51w x 0.61d

Review Citations: Quill & Quire 12/01/2011 pg. 26