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Battershill, Claire.
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Circus
/ Claire Battershill.
by
Battershill, Claire.
Emblem Editions, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION BAT
ISBN:
9780771012785 (softcover)
Description:
207 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
A gentle luxury -- Sensation -- The collective name for Ninjas -- Each small thing --
Circus
-- Two-man luge, a love story -- Brothers -- It tastes wonderful -- Quite everyday looking -- Acknowledgements.
Summary:
Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Step right up and prepare to be dazzled by this delightful debut from Claire Battershill, winner of the CBC Literary Award, co-winner of the Canadian Authors Association's Emerging Writer Award, and finalist for the inaugural PEN International/New Voices Award. As they transport us from a crowded airport departure lounge to the stillness of the British Museum, and from the spectacle of the Winter Olympics to the modesty of a local Miniatureland, these radiant stories explore the often surprising things we're willing to do for love and human connection. Fed up with his long history of failed blind dates, a shy English bureaucrat gives himself thirty-one days to find love on the Internet. A father buys his daughter a blue plastic tent to ready her for outdoor adventure, but neither is prepared when the tent becomes a neighbourhood sensation. The world of competitive sports provides the backdrop for a young man's coming of age in "Two-Man Luge: A Love Story." And in the award-winning title story, the granddaughter of a former
circus
performer (who played the role of a man-wrestling bear) finds herself grappling with the capriciousness of life and love. At once witty, tender-hearted, and profound, these stories are filled with a memorable and all-too-human cast of characters on the cusp of enormous change - whether they're ready or not. Written in spare yet startling language,
Circus
is a beautiful reminder that sometimes everyday life can be the greatest show on Earth.
Genre:
Short stories, Canadian.
Short stories.
Canadian fiction.
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