Juliet was a surprise : stories / Bill Gaston.
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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- 21 of 21 copies available at Sitka.
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Glenwood and Souris Regional Library | F Gaston 2014 (Text) | 367640000120121 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Hazelton Public Library | Fic (Text) | 35154000057467 | Adult Fiction - Main Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Smithers Public Library | F GAS (Text) | 35101000426614 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
Squamish Public Library | F GAS (Text) | 33110003040027 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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- Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2014 December #2
Gaston, recipient of the 2003 Timothy Findley Prize, will thrill readers with suspense, peculiarity and carnage in his latest short fiction collection. The book's title is derived from the third story, "Any Forest Seen from Orbit." Reminiscent of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the narrator and protagonist, a sexually inadequate average-looking arborist, is hired to uproot a deodara cedar obstructing a sewage pipe in the yard of Troy and Juliet Prudhomme, and is quickly seduced by Juliet. Jack Davies, a divorced executive, is at the center of "Four Corners." He has been dating Cheryl for six months but is ambiguously resentful about the relationship. He prepares to end the relationship at an upscale Italian restaurant only to discover that she has invited her father to meet him that night. In the compilation's first story, "House Clowns," a retired professor rents a cottage in Kamloops, B.C. to fish and reflect but is startled to arrive and find a young couple already there claiming to have rented the same cottage. Suspecting the couple's intentions, he plans to gain the upper hand while fishing with them in a canoe. Gaston interweaves erotic fantasies, male sexual inadequacy, female magical sensuality and utterly unforeseeable aggression. Agent: Carolyn Forde, Westwood Creative Artists. (June)
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Gaston, recipient of the 2003 Timothy Findley Prize, will thrill readers with suspense, peculiarity and carnage in his latest short fiction collection. The book's title is derived from the third story, "Any Forest Seen from Orbit." Reminiscent of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the narrator and protagonist, a sexually inadequate average-looking arborist, is hired to uproot a deodara cedar obstructing a sewage pipe in the yard of Troy and Juliet Prudhomme, and is quickly seduced by Juliet. Jack Davies, a divorced executive, is at the center of "Four Corners." He has been dating Cheryl for six months but is ambiguously resentful about the relationship. He prepares to end the relationship at an upscale Italian restaurant only to discover that she has invited her father to meet him that night. In the compilation's first story, "House Clowns," a retired professor rents a cottage in Kamloops, B.C. to fish and reflect but is startled to arrive and find a young couple already there claiming to have rented the same cottage. Suspecting the couple's intentions, he plans to gain the upper hand while fishing with them in a canoe. Gaston interweaves erotic fantasies, male sexual inadequacy, female magical sensuality and utterly unforeseeable aggression. Agent: Carolyn Forde, Westwood Creative Artists. (June)
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