The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead
Published in 2017, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead is Chanelle Benz's debut story collection, ten genre crossing stories that range from a seventeenth century English convent to the antebellum American South, a contemporary war zone, and a magical Old West. Benz writes in voices that include a young woman raised by outlaws, a freed slave reckoning with a former master, a poet kidnapped in a foreign country, and a Catholic novice with a violent secret. The stories share a willingness to let language carry weight that contemporary realism often refuses, and an interest in how women find or fail to find power in worlds defined by male violence. Benz, who grew up in England and the United States and trained at Syracuse under George Saunders, was praised by Hilary Mantel for her range and intensity. The collection was a finalist for the PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize.
What you might want to know about The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
Chanelle Benz's debut story collection of bold, violent tales that cross continents and centuries.
No, each story stands alone, though they share thematic concerns with women, violence, and language.
Both. Several stories are set in earlier centuries and others in the present, with frequent leaps between.
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead was written by Chanelle Benz, published in 2017 by Ecco.
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead is 230 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.