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Huebert, David.
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Social justice -- Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction.
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Huebert, David.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Social justice -- Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction.
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Chemical
valley
:
stories
/ David Huebert.
by
Huebert, David.
Biblioasis, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION HUE
Subjects
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Social justice -- Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction.
ISBN:
9781771964470 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
231 p. ; 21 cm
Notes:
"A John Metcalf book."
Summary:
From city-dwelling preppers to long term care nurses, dishwashers to professional hockey enforcers to refinery workers,
Chemical
Valley
's caring and carefully-wrought
stories
cultivate rich human emotional worlds in all the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy. Full-hearted, laced throughout with bruised optimism and a sincere appreciation of the profound beauty of our wilted, wheezing world,
Chemical
Valley
does not shy away from urgent modern questions--the distribution of toxicity, environmental racism, the future of technology, the climate, and the human body--but it grounds these anxieties in vivid and often humorous intricacies of its characters' lives. These are
stories
about big questions, but they are not scared of sentiment. Swamp-wrought, they run wild with vital energy, tilt and teeter into crazed and delirious loves. Contemporary issues: climate crisis, social justice, 21st century alienation. The characters in these
stories
are struggling with feelings of dislocation and exile from their natural and social worlds: a man struggling to care for the environment and his dying girlfriend while still working at a power plant that's polluting his city. Genre: Huebert's
stories
engage with the ecological world in surprising ways, expressing wonder at the world around us, dismay at its destruction, and using that world as a metaphor for humanity's own floundering, a new genre of ecological/climate fiction he conceives of as 'dirty nature writing.'
Awards:
Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction, 2022.
Genre:
Canadian fiction.
Ecofiction.
Short
stories
.
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