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Alex Shakar
Alex Shakar’s novel, The Savage Girl, was released by HarperCollins in the fall of 2001. Set in a fictional city spiking the walls of an active volcano, the drama revolves around an artist turned trendspotter named Ursula, and her younger sister Ivy, a fashion model turned schizophrenic. Both a love story and a dark reflection on the modern world, it has been called “a crystalline satire of a preening media elite too exhausted with pillaging the minds of consumers to notice the collapsing world around them” by Kirkus Reviews. The Savage Girl was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and has been (or is being) translated into French, Italian, German, Polish, Japanese, and Thai.
His short story collection, City in Love, tracks the street odysseys of a museum guard, a junk sculptor, an actor, a couple of schoolchildren, an options trader, and others, in a surreal but eerily recognizable New York City of the year 1 B.C. Based on the myths of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the stories are stylistically diverse and formally innovative, yet retain a strong commitment to character and narrative. The manuscript of City in Love was the winner of the 1996 National Fiction Competition, and as such was published by the avant-garde press FC2 in November 1996. More recently, it has been re-released in paperback by HarperCollins.
Sample works may be found at www.alexshakar.com
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