Labrador (novel)
1988 novel by Kathryn Davis
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Labrador is a 1988 novel by Kathryn Davis. It is Davis's debut novel.
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| Author | Kathryn Davis |
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| Language | English |
| Published | 1988 (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). Reprint 2019 (Graywolf Press) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 232 |
| ISBN | 978-1555978303 |
Major themes
Publication history
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]
Literary significance and reception
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]