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Paradise & elsewhere : stories / Kathy Page ; [edited by John Metcalf]

by Page, Kathy, 1958-

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Biblioasis, c2014.

9781927428597 (softcover)

Alternate title:

Paradise and elsewhere : stories

"A John Metcalf book"--Title page.

G'ming -- Lak-ha -- Of paradise -- The ancient Siddanese -- Low tide -- My beautiful wife -- We, the trees -- Clients -- Lambing -- Woodsmoke -- I like to look -- Saving grace -- The kissing disease -- My fees.

"The rubble of an ancient civilization. A village in a valley from which no one comes or goes. A forest of mother-trees, whispering to each other through their roots; a lakeside lighthouse where a girl slips into human skin as lightly as an otter into water; a desert settlement where there was no conflict, before she came; or the town of Wantwick, ruled by a soothsayer, where tourists lose everything they have. These are the places where things begin. New from the author of The Story of My Face and Alphabet, Paradise & Elsewhere is a collection of dark fables at once familiar and entirely strange: Kathy Page notches a new path through the wild, lush, half-fantastic and half-real terrain of fairy tale and myth."--Back cover.

"A collection of 14 fabulist short stories that feature an eclectic mix of characters. Kathy Page is the author of seven novels, including Alphabet (a Governor General's Award finalist in 2005), The Story of My Face (longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002), and The Find (shortlisted for the ReLit Award in 2011), as well as many short stories, previously collected in As In Music. She recently co-edited In the Flesh (2012), a collection of personal essays about the human body. Born in the UK, Kathy has lived on Salt Spring Island, off the coast of British Columbia, since 2001."--Provided by publisher.

Short stories, Canadian.

Fantasy fiction.

Canadian fiction.

Literary fiction.

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