Just a Howl

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

289 kr

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Beskrivning

Finding humour in desolation and beauty in the absurd, this darkly comic story collection chronicles our struggle for control in an uncontrollable world.An eruption of violence at a book reading. A doomed infatuation at the dawn of a plague. A married couple finding their carefully balanced lives as lighthouse keepers upended when they rescue a young woman from drowning. An oil executive spiralling into self-doubt as he is slowly swallowed by a snake.Set in prepper cabins and dentist offices, ivory towers and backwoods cults, these and other stories tell of a Canadian west made new and strange. Equipped with a gallows humour and a keen sense of the loneliness, irrationality, and unexpected cruelties of modern life, Just a Howl explores the many ways the twenty-first century corrodes our every attempt to connect to one another, as all the while a backdrop of catastrophe — personal, societal, and ecological — tilts the comic into the tragic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-06-03
Mått:127 x 177 x 25 mm
Vikt:28 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Dundurn Group Ltd
ISBN:9781459757547

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Will Richter's writing has received the CBC Short Story Prize, was shortlisted for a Lush Triumphant Literary Award, and has appeared in journals such as the Alaska Quarterly Review, The Fiddlehead, subTerrain, The Threepenny Review, and Witness. Just a Howl is his debut story collection. Raised off the coast of British Columbia, Will now lives with his family in Vancouver.