The Dead Are More Visible
โ Scribed by Steven Heighton
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 132 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307366685
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โฆ Synopsis
An astoundingly original and tightly curated collection of stories from the award-winning author of Every Lost Country __ and Afterlands .
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It is remarkably easy to accept Al Purdy's assertion that Steven Heighton--renowned for his craftsmanship, risk-taking, insight and range--"is one of the best writers of his generation, maybe the best." The Dead Are More Visible __ highlights his strengths at writing fiction that does not sacrifice humour, depth and emotion for the sake of brevity. These 11 profoundly moving and finely crafted stories encapsulate wildly divergent themes of love and loss, containment and exclusion. In the title story, a parks & rec worker faces an assailant who does not leave the altercation intact. A medical researcher and his claustrophobic fiancee are locked in the trunk of their car after a failed carjacking (the thief can't drive standard). A young woman enters a pharmaceutical trial in the...
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