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Dig : stories / Terry Doyle.

by Doyle, Terry.

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Breakwater Books, 2019.

9781550817591 (trade pbk.)

223 p. ; 21 cm.

Kid's special -- Graceland -- Snowbanks -- DIG -- Squat -- Bawdens highland -- Can't drink -- Breaking twenties -- Hammerhead -- Keeping that, are you? -- Cul-de-sac -- John.

"In twelve dialed-in and exceptionally honed short stories, Terry Doyle presents an enduring assortment of characters channelled through the chain reactions of misfortune and redemption. A construction worker's future is bound to a feckless and suspicious workmate. A young woman's burgeoning social activism is constrained by hardship and the desperation of selling puppies online. A wedding guest recognizes a panhandler attending the reception. And a man crafts a concealed weapon with which to carry out his nightly circuit of paltry retribution. Through keen-eyed observation, and with an impressive economy of statement, Doyle conveys these characters over a backdrop of private absurdities and confusions--countering the overbearance of a post-tragic age with grit, irony, and infinitesimal signs of hope."--Publisher.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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