Contrary angel / Mike Barnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Mike, 1955-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Barnes, Mike, 1955- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

202 pages : portrait ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill, [2004]

Summary:

In stories of stark passion and haunting trauma, Contrary Angel finds an acute clarity in those moments when human desires meet the sorcery of the world. The stories are exuberantly diverse in both subject matter and technique, as evidenced by a few of their titles: 'Urchipelago', 'Karaoke Mon Amour', 'Cogagwee', 'Do Not Stand Outside the Grande Restaurant.' They take us from the brilliant career of the runner Tom Longboat to the comic machinations of a peeping Tom landlord. The final four-story sequence, 'Doctors', follows an Egypt-obsessed girl from a savage childhood incident through her 'running' years as an athlete, traveller, wife and doctor, culminating in a devastating encounter in an operating room in the middle of the night.

Stories from Contrary Angel have appeared twice in The Journey Prize Anthology, twice in Best Canadian Stories, and won the Silver Medal at the National Magazine Awards.

Contents:

Don and Ron 9

Urchipelago 47

Do Not Stand Outside the Grande Restaurant 53

Cogagwee 67

Karaoke Mon Amour 89

Meat 109

Reno 121

Doctors

Scalpel 131

Decoys 147

Virtual 171

Scribe 185.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

ISBN:

0889842396 :

OCLC:

54692848