The high-rise in Fort Fierce / Paul Carlucci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlucci, Paul, author.

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:

216 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Highrise in Ft. Fierce

Place of Publication:

Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane, [2018]

Summary:

"Behind the walls and under the floors lurk the dark secrets of the high-rise in Fort Fierce. The story starts with Thomas Franklin who returns from World War II, determined to build a real estate empire. His high-rise in Fort Fierce was a beacon of his ambition, but it also holds a family secret: a Cold War bunker omitted from the blueprints. Constructed amid the boiling tensions of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the underground bunker harbours an arsenal of guns and the secrets of more than one Franklin. In this visceral, emotionally raw and completely absorbing collection, Carlucci takes his readers through the ravaged history of this high-rise of the North. Leading us into a dim, yet eerily familiar world, Carlucci immerses us into the violence that ravages the building's tenants as they slip into and out of each other's lives, the illness that radiates from the effects of too many floods and too much neglect, and the uneasy relationships that arise between indigenous and settler populations. Love and death, conflict and compromise, fear and determination thread the warp and weft of Carlucci's dark, yet irrepressible tapestry. We cannot look away."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The high-rise in Fort Fierce

Wood toad

Horses in circles

There goes the Dog Star

The summer I learned to fish

Forty-two taxi

Look at you, Percy

Florida is a beach real soon

As of right now.

Other Format:

Carlucci, Paul, author. High-rise in Fort Fierce./

ISBN:

9781773100265

1773100262

OCLC:

1029448199