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Rafael has pretty eyes : stories / Elaine McCluskey.

by McCluskey, Elaine, 1955-

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Goose Lane Editions, 2022.

Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction.

Maritime Provinces -- Fiction.

9781773101637 (trade pbk.)

253 p. ; 20 cm.

It's never what you think it will be -- It's your money -- Hope -- Let it go -- Little green men -- Is that all you got? -- What's it like? -- The gates of heaven -- Rafael has pretty eyes -- We were lucky -- The Rakin bus -- It will happen -- Dirty little liar -- Would you recommend us? -- Remember -- Gábor.

"The seventeen stories in Elaine McCluskey's latest collection Rafael Has Pretty Eyes follow characters who have reached a four-way stop in life; some are deciding whether to follow the signs or defy them; others find a sinkhole forming beneath their feet. A former fast-talking, big-bucks radio host now lives as a divorced payday loaner working in a strip mall; a football wide receiver at a small Canadian university works the night shift as a bouncer while recovering from his third concussion; a well-liked city councilor is arrested on a packed bus. As one character puts it, 'life is just one extended series of anecdotes strung together until they kill you.' Set in the Maritimes but transcending regional boundaries, McCluskey's stories are experimental, sometimes provocative, and often about those living on the margins. Smart, compassionate and unsparing, Rafael Has Pretty Eyes explores the absurdity and interconnectedness of a life adrift"--From publisher.

Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction, 2023.

Short stories, Canadian.

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