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1 online resource (209 pages) |
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text file rda |
| Series |
desLibris. Books collection.
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| Summary |
In these sixteen stories, Christopher Gudgeon, bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Song of Kosovo, takes a heartbreaking and hilarious look into the lives, loves, sexual obsessions and delusions that inform a grand cast of off-kilter characters. Here is a gay couple who persevere with their marriage plans as the world, literally, crumbles around them, a woman who discovers the mysterious collection of letters that reveals a terrifying truth about her deceased fiancée, a dutiful son, locked in an life-or-death marathon race with his famous father, and a baby who becomes infested with fruit flies, sending his adoptive parents into a spiral of recrimination and self-doubt. At once bitterly funny, provocative and poignant, this remarkable collection builds on Gudgeon's growing literary reputation, offering up the work of a great storyteller at his very best. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
The idea of Ian -- Jericho -- Life before video -- The Milwaukie Book of the Dead -- "Kaylee" -- The widow Soré -- Preface to the first English-language edition of the "Bŗasov" Moby-Dick -- Crumbs -- Dissertation on the reproductive habits of fruit flies from the mango groves of Eastern Uganda -- Sleep, Baby Jesus -- Slumped in the armchair of the gods -- Red firebird -- The art of fine eating -- Arrivederci homos -- Still life with birds and dust -- The idea of Ian. |
| Subject |
Short stories, Canadian -- 21st century.
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FICTION -- General.
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Short stories, Canadian. (OCoLC)fst01117131
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gudgeon, Christopher, 1959- Short stories. Selections. Encyclopedia of lies. Vancouver, British Columbia : Anvil Press, 2017 9781772140750 (DLC) 2017431083 (OCoLC)957649877 |
| ISBN |
9781772141092 (electronic bk.) |
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1772141097 (electronic bk.) |
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9781772141108 (electronic bk.) |
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1772141100 (electronic bk.) |
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