Juliet was a surprise : stories / Bill Gaston.
Gaston's characteristic keen insight and wit dazzle in this new collection. Readers will see the world through the prism of unfamiliar perspectives: a bank executive whose excellent sex life might in fact be killing her, an amorous tree surgeon better attuned to the values of his 'patients' than to other people, a vacationing schizophrenic, a pizza-delivery boy convinced he's witnessed magic - all struggling with the world as they see it. This versatile collection - at times darkly playful, absurd, or shockingly real - illustrates how we can fail to understand the simplest of truths and how we are trapped by the peculiarities of our own points of view. In his hands, the outlandish becomes comprehensible and everyday life comes to look strange. What unifies these stories and their characters is the underlying faith in the humanity of even the most dangerously misguided among us. Brazenly entertaining, but just as often heartbreaking, Juliet Was a Surprise portrays the humour and unfairness of life through the blunders and crimes of quixotic men and women with whom we can't help but sympathize.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780143192411 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780670065844 (hc.)
- Physical Description: 201 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada Books, Inc., [2014]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Short stories. CatMonthString:july.14 |
Formatted Contents Note: | Ten short stories: House clowns -- Cake's chicken -- Any forest seen from orbit -- Tumpadabump -- Petterick -- Geriatric arena grope -- To Mexico -- Black roses bloom -- At work in the fields of the Bulwer-Lytton -- Four corners. |
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Subject: | Canadian fiction. Short stories, Canadian. |
Genre: | Canadian fiction. Short stories. |
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