An anonymous writer stays up late into the night penning personal and inappropriate letters to a local public official. A new father and cook at a Montreal cafΓ© chronicles the tyrannical rise of a new manager. An eccentric young student, in trying to carve out a space for herself, deals an existenti
Dead flowers: stories
β Scribed by Alex Laidlaw
- Publisher
- Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.;Nightwood Editions
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-CA
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
An anonymous writer stays up late into the night penning personal and inappropriate letters to a local public official. A new father and cook at a Montreal cafΓ© chronicles the tyrannical rise of a new manager. An eccentric young student, in trying to carve out a space for herself, deals an existential blow to her roommate.Β Dead FlowersΒ is a collection of stories featuring characters who have become estranged from the trajectory of their lives, yet must grapple with youth, love, isolation, drugs, friendship and the changing of seasons. These are stories of peripheral tragedies, moral ambivalence and compromise, chance and how we are shaped by what findsΒ us.
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