The midwife of torment & other stories : 60 sudden fictions / Paulo Da Costa ; cover, back-cover images and drawings by João Ventura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

da costa, paulo, author.

Contributor:

Ventura, João O., artist.

Series:

Essential prose series ; 136.

Essential prose series ; 136

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Canadian--21st century.

Short stories, Canadian.

Genre:

Short stories, Canadian.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

xi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Midwife of torment and other stories

Sixty sudden fictions

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2017.

Summary:

"The Midwife of Torment and Other Stories is a collection of sudden fiction that compresses its narrative to deliver a variety of stories that alternate the flavour of a philosophical reflection with the whimsical enchantment of a fable with a twist. These stories also often dwell on the strange and the horror found in our mundane lives. Stories that, on occasion, also leap as far as speculative fiction or swirl in a lyrical exploration of prose narratives. Midwife of Torment and Other Stories explores human and non-human voices through narrative weighing at less than one thousand words, and the vast majority weighing at less than five hundred. The characters emerge from worlds of human domesticity and community interaction as well as from the natural world, lending voice to experiences that, at times, occur outside the accepted norms of consensual reality."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 189).

Other Format:

Da Costa, Paulo, author. Midwife of torment & other stories.

ISBN:

9781771831628

1771831626

OCLC:

958486135