The Crazy Hunter
Kay Boyle's collection, Three Short Novels, is a masterpiece of concision and style. Boyle was a member of the Lost Generation in Paris and a beloved teacher in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University, and her fiction is often underrated. All three of the novellas are excellent, but the first, "The Crazy Hunter," is astounding, almost Faulknerian in its heightened rhetoric, its interiority, and sense of terror. A very impressive performance.