Battleborn - Softcover

'This assured collection brings together stories from the underbelly of Nevadan life.' --Guardian

'Her remarkably assured and arresting collection of stories, Battleborn, draws on her own family history and life among the casinos, brothels and deserts of her native Nevada.' --Nicholas Wore, Guardian

'I urge you to read these spellbinding tales set in the arid landscape of Claire's home state of Nevada. This is the American west at its most other-worldly - a dark, visceral and raw place where her contemporary characters are weighed down by their past.' --Wales Online

'Extraordinary... This is a very eccentric, tough, wise new voice.' --The Times

'This carefully controlled collection of short stories, which tells of hardship and madness in the American West, has just won the Dylan Thomas Prize - and deservedly so.' --Sunday Telegraph

I'd love to find Claire Vaye Watkins's Battleborn in my Christmas stocking. --'Books of the Year' chosen by Jackie Kay, Observer

'This carefully controlled collection of short stories, which tells of hardship and madness in the American West, has just won the Dylan Thomas Prize - and deservedly so.' --Sunday Telegraph

The most exciting book of fiction I read this past year. From the moment I opened the first pages I was enthralled, utterly and completely. I was awed by the astonishing variety, intelligence, and subtle invention of the stories. Fantastic stuff. --The Millions

'This carefully controlled collection of short stories, which tells of hardship and madness in the American West, has just won the Dylan Thomas Prize - and deservedly so.' --Sunday Telegraph

CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS is a Nevadan and a Presidential Fellow at Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in Hobart, the Hopkins Review, and Ploughshares.