13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger: The Best Stories of Keath Fraser - Brossura

Fraser, Keath

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ISBN 10: 0887621937 ISBN 13: 9780887621932

Casa editrice: Thomas Allen Pub, 2005

Riassunto

Keath Fraser is without a doubt one of the most original voices in Canadian letters. He is a writer of truly wonderous imagination and a master of the art of narrative invention. "13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger" is a selection of eighteen of his best stories from the past twenty-five years. Here is a collection of short fiction that showcases the sheer genius of this extraordinary writer, who has been far too under-recognized and who may be one of the best kept secrets in Canadian literature. On a gulf island, a woman with defective syntax prepares for an important speech. A baritone opera singer in San Francisco finds elegiac flight from an imprisoning tire farm and his present legacy of glory holes. A retired diplomat struggles undiplomatically to overcome crippling decline with the help of a teenage girl. Other stories from the West Coast tell of transgressing couples, kidnapped children, rooming-house men on welfare. Narrative journeys elsewhere also carry unexpected ends.

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Book by Fraser Keath

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• Editore: Thomas Allen Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0887621937
• ISBN 13: 9780887621932
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400