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Bang Crunch

Name: Bang Crunch
Price: 19.00 USD
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Author: Neil Smith
ISBN: 9780307386106

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Published on Jan 08, 2008 | 256 Pages

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In Neil Smith’s nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome, whose age expands and contracts like the universe. The members of a support group for people with benign tumors begin to suspect that their meekness has caused their medical woes.

Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters, and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing, exacting concern for the profundities of our lives.

“Smith’s writing has real spark and energy…. It’s a fizzing debut.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Marvelously readable and inventive…. Smith’s work is vehemently quirky but executed with the panache and facility of a polished veteran.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“An assured and imaginative short-story debut. Smith’s ability to write from an absurdly wide ranges of character perspectives…is a disarming delight.”
—The Washington Post

“Flamboyant and impishly humorous. . . . Bang Crunch? That’s the sound of a talented new writer making his mark.”
—The Toronto Star

“A remarkably fresh and self-assured debut. . . . Smith demonstrates the range of both his imagination and his empathy. . . . [He] is not just a natural, he’s a kind of literary chameleon. He adopts the voices of men, women, and children with equal ease.”
—Quill & Quire

“Smith seems able to write about anything with flair and sympathy. . . . Bang Crunch is great fiction.”
—Toronto Globe and Mail

“Supremely crafted. . . . A polished and marvelously textured first book of short fiction.”
—Now Magazine

Author

Neil Smith

NEIL SMITH is a Canadian writer and translator. His novel Boo won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and was nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec. Smith published his debut book, the short story collection Bang Crunch, in 2007. It was chosen as a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Globe and Mail, won the McAuslan First Book Prize from the Quebec Writers’ Federation, and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Three stories in the book were also nominated for the Journey Prize. Smith also works as a translator, from French to English. The Goddess of Fireflies, his translation of Geneviève Pettersen’s novel La déesse des mouches à feu, was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation. His latest novel is Jones.

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