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Kevin Hardcastle's stories have appeared in Shenandoah, The Walrus, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, EVENT, PRISM International, and Joyland. His work has been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories, and twice in The Journey Prize Stories. His debut collection of short stories Debris (Biblioasis, 2015) won the 2016 Trillium Book Award. Hardcastle lives in Toronto.
ONE OF CBC BOOKS' "17 WRITERS TO WATCH IN 2017"
PRAISE FOR IN THE CAGE
“The architecture of this first novel is faultlessly conceived; the
construction of the storytelling is meticulously crafted.
Hardcastle has an abiding sympathy for the neglected rural poor.
The characters we love will break our hearts; the low-lifes we fear
are no less indelibly rendered. There is an aura of foreboding—of
tragic inevitability—to the collision course of their lives. And,
speaking strictly as a former wrestler, the details are true.”—John
Irving, The Cider House Rules
“Hardcastle is one of Canada's emerging literary fiction
stars.”—CBC Books
“Written in taut, tough as nails prose, with a cinematic quality
comparable to McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, Hardcastle’s In
The Cage, is, to say the least, a wild, unrelenting ride, filled
with thugs and desperation and innocents and heartbreak. A damn
fine book.”—Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff
“A potent and gripping novel that rigorously steers through rural
poverty and mixed martial arts ... [the characters’] depth and
richness flourish throughout Hardcastle’s captivating
narrative.”—Waubgeshig Rice, author of Legacy
“Hardcastle's signature style [is] a kind of rural poetry ...
closer in spirit to McCarthy than Hemingway.”—Steven W. Beattie,
Quill & Quire
“Hardcastle’s descriptions possess an elegant choreography that is
vivid, energetic, and well-paced ... In The Cage—like its
protagonist, Daniel—is well structured, engaging, and hard to
dislike.”—Shawn Syms, Foreword Reviews
“A masterful mashup between genres, matching the masculine violence
of the cage match with country-tinged, Mamet-esque dialogue that
elevates these characters into rich portraits of desperate people
living for sheer survival. A crime novel with the pulse of a sports
drama and the bitter toxicity of the best country noir.”—Kirkus
Reviews
“There is focus and energy in Daniel's quiet rage ... rather than
employ a commonplace, Tarantinoesque approach juxtaposing the
violence with humour or camp, Hardcastle provides no adornments.
His economical writing resembles dispatches from a war zone
...”—Stephen Knight, Quill & Quire
PRAISE FOR KEVIN HARDCASTLE
“There is a sure-handed display of craftsmanship in these eleven
stories ... Everyone gets hurt, but everything makes sense, and the
storytelling is so good—the language, a soothing balm for the
pain.”—John Irving, The Cider House Rules
“[Debris] has its own strong voice ... smoothly connected by
uncompromising settings and Hardcastle’s authentic, plainspoken
country-noir voice, the 11 stories collected here will appeal to
fans of gritty, back-country crime fiction, even those who
typically shun short stories.”—Booklist
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