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Rust and Bone: Stories by Davidson, Craig is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rust and Bone: Stories about?

In steel-tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by fighting dogs, prizefighters, sex addicts, gamblers, a repo man and a disappearing magician. The title of the lead story, "28 Bones", refers to the number of bones in a boxer's hands; once broken, they never heal properly, and the fighter's career descends to bouts that have less to do with sport than with survival: no referee, no rules, not even gloves. In "A Mean Utility" we enter an even more desperate arena: dogfights where Rottweilers, pit bulls and Dobermans fight each other to the death. Davidson's stories are small monuments to the telling detail. The hostility of his fictional universe is tempered by the humanity he invests in his characters and by his subtle and very moving observations of their motivation. In the tradition of Hemingway, "Rust and Bone" explores violence, masculinity and life on the margins. Visceral and with a dark urgency, this is a truly original debut.

Who reads Rust and Bone: Stories?

Author

Davidson, Craig

Publisher

Picador

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143051251

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction

Rating

3.78 / 5 (400 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14