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The King of Siam / Murray Logan.
LIBRA PR9199.3.L6365 K56 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Logan, Murray, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canada--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Canada.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill, [1998]
- Summary:
- "The King of Siam" is a book of thirteen short stories - stories set at a dinner party between brittle friends; over a game of chess in a community centre; a visit to a racetrack in Vancouver; a poker room in Las Vegas. The characters in this book are at the fringes of society and the tattered edges of their own lives - a teenage boy who defends his wastrel father for the first and last time; a cynical woman who attends a bizarre memorial service for someone she doesn't know, celebrating something she can't quite identify; an elderly woman, determined not to be a little-old-lady, who gets a tattoo. "The King of Siam" takes the reader into territory that is compellingly strange, hauntingly familiar.
- ISBN:
- 0889841950
- OCLC:
- 38748798
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