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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1994
  • Latest Book:
    March 2017
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Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • In the tradition of the works of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford, this fiction debut shines with verbal brilliance. Disturbing yet compellingly readable, the stories in this collection explore the gap between disappointment and hope, between life as ...



  • Building on the success of A Stranger in This World, the widely praised collection of stories that was one of the most exciting literary debuts of recent years, Kevin Canty has written a blistering, unforgettable first novel. Set in the sprawl of sub...





  • From the acclaimed author of A Stranger in this World and Into the Great Wide Open comes a novel that explores reckless love and penetrates the unrelenting winter landscape of the American West.Marvin Deernose, a Native American carpenter and recover...



  • Kevin Canty is a master of the short story, a writer whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, but always with the understanding that Canty's is strikingly new, cool, and real. Now in Honeymoon, after two novels, K...



  • Richard Winslow is in a rut. His marriage is over and he is alone, teaching poetry as a visiting professor in Montana and continuing to avoid actually writing himself. He drinks to oblivion every night.At this freezing college, in the dead of winter,...



  • Kevin Canty is a master of the short story whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver. In Where the Money Went, he surprises us with stories about love and the desertion of love, all written from a man's point of vie...



  • In taut, exquisite prose, Kevin Canty explores the largest themes of life -- work, love, death, destruction, rebirth -- in the middle of the everyday. On the fifth of July, RL and June go down to the river with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red to c...



  • Kevin Canty tells a story based on a real incident that begins with a disastrous fire in an isolated silver-mining town in Idaho in the 1970s. Everyone in town had a friend, lover, brother, or a husband killed in the mine. THE UNDERWORLD traces th...





Award-Winning Books by Kevin Canty

Into the Great Wide Open
1997 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award -- Regional Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kevin Canty has published 9 books.

Kevin Canty does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Underworld, was published in March 2017.

The first book by Kevin Canty, A Stranger in This World, was published in July 1994.

No. Kevin Canty does not write books in series.