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All the lonely people : collected stories / Barry Callaghan ; preface by Margaret Atwood.

by Callaghan, Barry, 1937-

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Exile Editions, 2018.

9781550967906 (hc.)

xiii, 486 p. ; 21 cm.

Full disclosure : preface by Margaret Atwood -- Because Y is a crooked letter -- The black queen -- Without shame -- Piano play -- Our thirteenth summer -- T-Bone and Elise -- Intrusions -- Between trains -- Dreambook for a sniper -- Deja vu -- Crow Jane's blues -- All the lonely people -- Dog days of love -- Drei alter kockers -- Third pew to the left -- The harder they come -- Buddies in bad times -- And so to bed -- Anybody home? -- Poodles John -- Dark laughter -- A terrible discontent -- The Cohen in Cowan -- Prowlers -- Mellow yellow -- The muscle -- A drawn blind -- Mermaid -- Everybody wants to go to Heaven -- Willard and Kate -- A kiss is still a kiss -- The state of the union -- Silent music -- Communion -- Up up and away with Elmer Sadine -- Paul Valery's shoe.

"Short stories, like tiny novels you drown in, filled with people of our modern moment who find in every instance some trick of survival, that remarkable homage to human resourcefulness. Callaghan's writing is wide-ranging but often takes the perspective of a marginal individual's view of the human experience. These tales are told in a variety of voices: street hustlers, priests, blues singers, Holocaust survivors, cross-dressers, paramilitary snipers, even those we may euphemistically consider the "ordinary"--all of them authentic, and all would subscribe to the maxim that "happiness is overrated." The dialogue is true to speech as it is spoken, shot through with humour, piercing sadness and puzzling beauty."--From publisher.

Short stories, Canadian.

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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