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| Author | Kathryn Davis |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Published | 1988 (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). Reprint 2019 (Graywolf Press) |
| Pages | 232 |
| ISBN | 978-1555978303 |
Labrador is a 1988 novel by Kathryn Davis. It is Davis's debut novel.
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| Author | Kathryn Davis |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Published | 1988 (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). Reprint 2019 (Graywolf Press) |
| Pages | 232 |
| ISBN | 978-1555978303 |
Labrador is a 1988 novel by Kathryn Davis. It is Davis's debut novel.
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]
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]
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]
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