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Behaving this way is all I have left / Gonzalo Riedel.

by Riedel, Gonzalo, 1982-

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Insomniac Press, c2013.

9781554831104 (softcover)

119 p. ; 21 cm.

Revision of author's M.A. thesis with same title.

The Trained Performers -- Clubbers -- A Matter of Degrees -- The Alderson Murder -- Castle Gates -- The Escort Agency -- Bumpers -- Chewing His Way Free -- Crack in the Headstone.

A woman poisons her husband, who sputters and keels over but will not die. A man has his restaurant burned down, then retraces the steps, certain he has made a mistake. A tightrope walker slips off the cable and dangles over the crowd by her fingers. Despite their best efforts, people always screw up.Riedel writes about fools and low-lifes who cannot help but make mistakes. His stories are taut and perversely funny, often punctuated with moments of heartbreak, and his characters are classic scumbags who put their own interests before all others--to hell with everyone else

Short stories, Canadian.

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