Haints Stay, by Colin Winnette
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"In his astonishing portrait of American violence, Haints Stay, Colin Winnette makes use of the Western genre to stunning effect. But this isn't a chummy oater penned by the likes of Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour. Winnette's frontier feels more Homeric. His knack for tapping into scenes of primal fear and poetic violence serves as an indictment of our species' base nature and worst instincts. While the novel flouts most of the conventions of the traditional horse opera, the rewards of Haints Stay belong to the reader."—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times"Striking and powerful... a Western as reimagined through the transgressive lens of Dennis Cooper. What Winnette does here is less about undermining the traditions of the Westerns and more about pushing them in unexpected directions."—Tobias Carroll, Electric Literature"The most anticipated independent novel of the summer."—Flavorwire"Winnette’s already sharp prose is honed here to a razor edge. It rolls across the stark, lawless world he evokes like approaching thunder."—Midnight Breakfast
Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them while between towns. For miles, there is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes, people.
The story follows the middling bounty hunters after they've been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit of their own sense of belonging and justice. It features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, a transgender birth, a wagon train, a stampede, and the tenuous rise of the West's first one-armed gunslinger.
Haints Stay is a new acid western in the tradition of Rudolph Wurlitzer, Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man: meaning it is brutal, surreal, and possesses an unsettling humor.
Colin Winnette is the author of Revelation, Animal Collection, and Fondly—which was listed among Salon's Best Books of 2013. He is an associate editor of PANK Magazine, and conducts a regular interview series for the Believer's "Logger." His writing has appeared on BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, and in the Believer.
Haints Stay, by Colin Winnette- Amazon Sales Rank: #1014974 in Books
- Brand: Winnette, Colin
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Format: Deckle Edge
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.50" h x .80" w x 5.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 212 pages
About the Author Colin Winnette is the author of Revelation (Mutable Sound), Animal Collection (Spork Press), and Fondly (Attics Books)—listed among Salon.com’s Best Books of 2013. His fourth book, Coyote, won Les Figues Press’s NOS Book Contest and is forthcoming in 2014. His other prizes include the Sonora Review’s 2012 Short Short Fiction Contest and Heavy Feather Review’s Featured Chapbook Contest (for Follow Through). He was also a finalist for the 1913 Press First Book Award and Gulf Coast Magazine’s Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Disappointing By KRW1988 I'm actually going to write a real review of the novel, considering the previous one review of this book is nothing but a half-hearted attempt at some ironic poem.Haints Stay really began with a promising story, about two killers on the run from some unsavory men, and coming across an almost mute boy in the process. It sets itself up very nicely for a tale of redemption and journey. Then, it just dissolves into lunacy and cringe-worthy writing. Without giving too much away or spoiling the ending, the novel then breaks off into two separate stories, none of which are of the same quality as the first half. It became a chore to finish and the ending itself is nothing but a tacked-on cop out. The characters completely change in way of motive and language, and it feels like you're reading an entirely different story. It was a total disappointment.I read another book by the same author, Coyote, and that too was the same. I wanted to like this author since I saw he had some awards, but honestly, the works I read of his are unfocused, and the writing is just too misguided to enjoy. It was one of those works that had a great story, but the execution itself of course was elementary at best.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Unconventional take on the old west By Jim Ruland In his astonishing portrait of American violence, "Haints Stay," Colin Winnette makes use of the Western genre to stunning effect. But this isn't a chummy oater penned by the likes of Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour. Winnette's frontier feels more Homeric."Brooke took the curving blade then and applied it to the neck of yet another man, opening him up like a coin purse and spilling his contents onto the blankets and bundles before him," Winnette writes early in the novel.Brooke and Sugar are killers for hire who self-identify as brothers (though the uproar Sugar causes when he disrobes in a bathhouse calls his gender into question). Brooke harbors no doubts about his sibling's sex, but his views regarding familial relationships can be charitably called misguided:"The truth was they had plenty of fathers, but that wasn't what people meant when they said father. They had that kind of father too, the kind that gave Sugar his thick hair and Brooke his crooked nose. There was a single man responsible for the husks of both brothers, only no one knew which man he was or had been and Brooke and Sugar did not care for them to."Brooke and Sugar are adept at causing chaos wherever they go, which typically takes the shape of grievous bodily harm for whomever crosses their path. This changes, albeit briefly, when a young boy, naked and afraid, appears in their camp. He can recall little of his origins except for a vague sense that some terrible evil has befallen his family. The killers name him "Bird," but after a few days in the company of the murderous duo Bird begins to suspect that this terrible evil may very well be Brooke and Sugar.Winnette's fifth novel in as many years bears resemblance to Patrick deWitt's "The Sisters Brothers," which also features odd but charismatic killers, and both novels owe a debt to Charles Portis' "True Grit."Winnette's vision is darker, and his knack for tapping into scenes of primal fear and poetic violence serves as an indictment of our species' base nature and worst instincts. Bloodshed begets bloodshed, but "Haints Stay" lingers on the trauma of the aftermath and explores the unintended consequences of violence. This is especially true when the narrative leaves the brothers behind and follows Bird's perilous path between the brutal wilderness and what passes for civilization.A "haint" is a colloquial term for ghost, but perhaps the restless spirit here is the novel's shifting perspective, which moves from character to character like a vulture flitting from corpse to corpse. When Bird is asked if he believe in ghosts, he replies that he does. "Because it is better to believe in them and never see one than not to believe in them when one decides to set upon you."As a countermeasure to all this death and depravity, Winnette introduces a widow, an orphan and a newborn who collectively serve as the best hope for human decency. Although "[s]he did not like killing things," the widow is determined to protect the baby because "there was always the possibility that [Brooke] was evil incarnate and that the things he was determined to do with that baby would not reward imagining."While the novel flouts most of the conventions of the traditional horse opera, the rewards of "Haints Stay" belong to the reader.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. so good. Confusion reared its head when one of the ... By Eirlys have to confess I was very puzzled by this book. ColinWinnette and "acid Westerns" were not known to me so I didnot quite know what to expect.The opening paragraph set the scene : Brooke and Sugar, twomen on foot. task completed but now, for some reason, withouttheir horses and making for the nearest town. So far, so good.Confusion reared its head when one of the men seemed toattract attention as others referred to Sugar as being awoman.Brooke and Sugar are run out town, like film Westernbaddies and, later that night waken to find a naked child lyingbetween them. He has no memory of his past but can speakand make himself understood. They name him Bird.Sugar takes him to a graveyard where a "thin man" advisesSugar to keep Bird and hints that Sugar, biologically thereforea woman. keep the baby he/she is carrying. Sugar, angry, stabsBird who survives when he is carried away by stampedinghorses.Sugar and Brooke do try to find Bird but are themselvesseparated and each one of the three now has to survive on hisown.The background, the wilderness around them is bleak andunforgiving. Good and bad people die; they are "collected" assome one remarked. The story seems to zig zag and I found iteasy to lose my way in following the plot.The author, Colin Winnette, certainly captured my attentioneven though at times I felt I was in an alien place withshadowy, evil people around every corner. I didn't enjoy thestory as it seemed to emphasise that good does not alwaysconquer evil; that evil is all around us and often overcomes theinnocent.I was left feeling that the book is a prequel to the story ofBird, the gunslinger, whose only aim is to survive; to be safe.An interesting, unusual story, told with unflinching directness, it is a story in the Acid Western genre.Its title "Haints Stay" refers to the old Southern term forghosts and I was certainly left feeling haunted by this book.
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