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6 produkter
6 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
180 kr
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Taut, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives.A teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame upon the frozen waters of a subarctic lake. After her mother's death, a high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church’s Annual Young Writer’s Short Story Competition. An incarcerated man considers the nature of justice between shifts with his fellow inmates at Nations at War, the ultimate live-action experience for tourists eager to learn about the Canadian Civil War.Spanning states and provinces, and featuring an apocalypse, a coterie of ghosts, nuns on ice, and an above-average number of dogs, the stories in Hello, Horse consider the mirage of authenticity and the impact of decisions we make—for better and for worse.
E-bok
Engelska, 2024207 kr
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Taut, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives.
A teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame upon the frozen waters of a subarctic lake. After her mother''s death, a high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church’s Annual Young Writer’s Short Story Competition. An incarcerated man considers the nature of justice between shifts with his fellow inmates at Nations at War, the ultimate live-action experience for tourists eager to learn about the Canadian Civil War.
Spanning states and provinces, and featuring an apocalypse, a coterie of ghosts, nuns on ice, and an above-average number of dogs, the stories in Hello, Horse consider the mirage of authenticity and the impact of decisions we make—for better and for worse.
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E-bok
Engelska, 2026250 kr
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The genre of memoir is bullshit (as I humbly posit). No one actually lives like they are moving along some grand Freytags triangle. Rather, we live within isolated instances, specific struggles and victories, which, when compiled, form a narrative.Richard Kelly KemickInDecadence, Richard Kelly Kemicks accidental memoir of a sort,the author ranges widely through his myriad preoccupations andobsessionsvolleyball, municipal landfills, dogs, high school plays,Christmas villages, loveout of which the shape of a unique sensibilityis revealed. Reminiscent of the three DavidsRakoff, Sedaris, andWallacethese essays accrete into a portrait of a man trying to makesense of a world in which there are no goddamn rules; and yet one inwhich every action has sometimes profound consequences. A book ofintelligence and care and kindness and humour and yearning and theoccasional epiphany, Decadence gathers up from the odds and ends ofliving what makes a modern lifequiet and desperate as it may attimes beworth celebrating.
- Nyhet
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
260 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
"The genre of memoir is bullshit (as I humbly posit). No one actually lives like they are moving along some grand Freytag’s triangle. Rather, we live within isolated instances, specific struggles and victories, which, when compiled, form a narrative."—Richard Kelly KemickIn Decadence, Richard Kelly Kemick’s “accidental memoir of a sort,” the author ranges widely through his myriad preoccupations and obsessions—volleyball, municipal landfills, dogs, high school plays, Christmas villages, love—out of which the shape of a unique sensibility is revealed. Reminiscent of the three Davids—Rakoff, Sedaris, and Wallace—these essays accrete into a portrait of a man trying to make sense of a world in which there are no goddamn rules; and yet one in which every action has sometimes profound consequences. A book of intelligence and care and kindness and humour and yearning and the occasional epiphany, Decadence gathers up from the odds and ends of living what makes a modern life—quiet and desperate as it may at times be—worth celebrating.
Del 1 - Greetings, Chap!
Playing God
A Christmas Card Story
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
159 kr
Kommande
Writer Richard Kelly Kemick humorously tracks his growing obsession with Christmas villages in this short essay that also acts as a holiday card. Playing God originally appeared in the collection Decadence, and as a limited chapbook—both published by Biblioasis.Playing God is the first entry in Greetings, Chap!, a new series of giftable chapbooks for every occasion: birthdays, holidays, and special occasions. Each comes with a place to write a message, and an envelope. Give the readers in your life more than the standard card, and discover the work of writers you might not otherwise come across.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
321 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Finalist, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for NonfictionOn a whim, armchair-atheist Richard Kelly Kemick joins the 100-plus cast of The Canadian Badlands Passion Play, North America's largest production of its kind and one of the main tourist attractions in Alberta. By the time closing night is over, Kemick has a story to tell. From the controversial choice of casting to the bizarre life in rehearsal, this glorious behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada's strangest theatrical spectacles also confronts the role of religion in contemporary life and the void left by its absence for non-believers.In the tradition of tragic luminaries such as David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Goldstein, and David Sedaris, I Am Herod gives its congregation of readers unparalleled access to the players of the Passion: there's Judas, who wears a leather jacket even when it's 30˚C; the Chief Sadducee, who is ostracized for his fanaticism; Pilate, the only actor who swears; the Holy Spirit, who is breaking ground as the role's first female actor; and the understudy Christ, the previous year's real-deal Christ who was demoted to backup and now performs illicit one-man shows backstage.