19 Knives

Stories

By: Mark Jarman

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Paperback | 1 February 2008 | Edition Number 2

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Paperback
154 Pages

Edition Type
New edition

Age
1 - 17

Dimensions(cm)
21.5 x 13.9 x 1.0

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With characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman''s 19 Knives employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn''t just write about people, he puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short-story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in 19 Knives. With one of the stories shortlisted for the U.S.''s prestigious O. Henry Prize and several others having won prizes or been published in magazines and journals across North America, this collection brings a major fiction writer to the fore.

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"Beautiful writing, too, but not too beautiful. Jarman writes the way we'd like to talk, vocabulary tripping easily to tongue, snappy comebacks at just the right moment, never too formal or too painfully colloquial. He never makes a misstep, never puts words that are too big or too small in anyone's mouth; his dialogue sounds like it was transcribed from tape rather than imagined. The verisimilitude of his writing would be unbelievable were it not here on the page waiting to be read - and read it you should, for 19 Knives is short fiction at its finest." - Georgia Straight

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