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Friedman, Elyse, 1963-
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Long
story
short
: a
novella
and
stories
/ by Elyse Friedman.
by
Friedman, Elyse, 1963-
Anansi, 2007.
Call #:
FICTION FRI
ISBN:
9780887842191
0887842194
Description:
214 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
A bright tragic thing -- The soother -- Wonderful -- Truth -- Lost kitten -- The virtual tour.
Summary:
"A dark, comically off-beat, and surprisingly heartbreaking
novella
about a young man who copes with the passage into adulthood by cultivating an almost fanatically ironic view of the world, but who is ultimately forced to deliver a death blow to irony -- which visits him in the form of a washed-up '80s sitcom star. In the accompanying handful of
short
stories
, Friedman demonstrates her sure touch with everyday situations and her uncanny, precise ability to expose the strangeness at the heart of "normal." Her moving
story
"The Soother," about a middle-aged man who copes with intense demands from family and friends by visiting a prostitute he pays to coddle and soothe him, won Gold at the 2006 National Magazine Awards for fiction and was published in the Toronto Life summer fiction issue. A second
story
, "Lost Kitten," was also nominated for a 2006 National Magazine Award, and "Truth" was selected for the Journey Prize Anthology and appeared in Best Canadian
Stories
."--Anansi Press.
Genre:
Short
stories
.
Humorous fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Novellas.
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