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By Mark Anthony Jarman

ISBN-10: 0864929153

ISBN-13: 9780864929150

ISBN-10: 0864929188

ISBN-13: 9780864929181

Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for brief Fiction, New Brunswick e-book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award

One of Canada's literary treasures, Mark Anthony Jarman returns with a book of relocating and infrequently humorous stories of a man's quest for himself. A.S. Byatt says that his writing is "extraordinary, his tales gripping," and during this wonderful new assortment, Jarman grants whatever new as soon as again.

In Knife get together on the inn Europa, Jarman writes approximately wasting and discovering love, marriage and depression, the dislocation and redemptive strength of go back and forth in Italy's sensual summer time. a guy travels to Italy to flee the reminiscence of affection misplaced, and a wedding ended. He passes via sun-drenched landscapes of cliffs and seashore paradises, whereas the corpses of refugees wash up at the seashore; he events with the younger and gorgeous Italians he meets at the teach whereas a guy bleeds to demise within the hallway. A teenage thief prowls the roof of the vacationer resort at evening; an embassy is bombed; holy statues come alive to roam in a gang stealing used eating place grease. He suffers the extreme loneliness of 1 who has deserted and been deserted, and during this beautiful anguish, he unearths how appealing this existence might be. In shiny, sensuous prose, Jarman's tales circle and overlap in stunning, bizarre, and beautiful methods. Tangents change into the most important, allusions are powerful.

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Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for brief Fiction, New Brunswick e-book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardOne of Canada's literary treasures, Mark Anthony Jarman returns with a book of relocating and sometimes humorous stories of a man's quest for himself. A. S. Byatt says that his writing is "extraordinary, his tales gripping," and during this beautiful new assortment, Jarman offers whatever new once more.

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