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Sep 12, 1998 | ISBN 9780771006661 Buy
Nov 17, 2020 | ISBN 9780771008030 Buy
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Sep 12, 1998 | ISBN 9780771006661
Nov 17, 2020 | ISBN 9780771008030
These eight stories reveal a world that’s both recognizable and strange: cities of anxiety and violence, where quiet inhabitants lead outwardly banal lives that conceal sinister interiors. The premises, both fantastic and surreal, are also eerily plausible; they often follow the logic of dreams where the real can appear in disguise. Though geographically rooted, the setting – from Ottawa to Toronto and the South of France – take on an ephemeral dimension: the geography is of the subconscious.With his darkly philosophical bent and sly humour, Alexis has fashioned an underworld and limned it with light. Despair quakes with life and sings with the imaginative brilliance of one of the most accomplished new talents writing today.
André Alexis is the author of Fifteen Dogs, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads. His internationally acclaimed debut, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Book… More about Andre Alexis
“Readers will be rewarded by this collection’s extraordinary depth of field and by its author’s vibrant intelligence.”–Branko Gorjup, Review of Candian Fiction“Alexis is among those whose talent could take him anywhere.”–Canadian Forum“He has a bizarre and brilliant wit.”–Ottawa Xpress“His stories are powerful, disturbing, and beautiful.”–Harry Mathews
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