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McConvey, J. R., 1979-
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Different beasts : stories /
J
.R.
McConvey
.
by
McConvey
,
J
.
R
.,
1979-
Goose Lane Editions, 2019.
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FICTION MCC
ISBN:
9781773101262 (trade pbk.)
Description:
209 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"A bear runs amok in a luxury hotel. A daily swim at the local pool becomes a question of life or death. The champion of a border wall faces an unexpected adversary. The twelve stories in Different Beasts ask what it means to be both human and monster. Shape-shifting waifs, haunted stuffies, scavenging drones, insectoid demon-gods, and mutant angels all come to life in this wildly imagined debut. As do broken soldiers, disgraced politicians, tired parents, ogres and children, opportunists, and desperate survivors - human beasts each struggling with the animalian aspects of their nature. In this wild, fantastical, viscerally memorable debut,
J
.R.
McConvey
explores the power dynamics that undergird social relationships and crystallize into structures of fealty and worship, fear and control, aspiration and desire."--Publisher.
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Short stories.
Short stories, Canadian.
Canadian fiction.
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