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The pros & cons of dragon-slaying / Anthony Labriola.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Labriola, Anthony, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Canadian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson, [Arizona] : Anaphora Literary Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Anthony Labriola's collection of stories shows us the battles--fought, lost and won--when we strive to live life to the fullest. In the fabled adventures in both this world and the next, there are many quests to be embarked on, with countless clashes with dragons--seen and unseen. In The Pros & Cons of Dragon-Slaying, the characters struggle with the bewildering aspects of existence and try to prevail against the forces that are arrayed against them, or that are besieging them from within. Despite their multiple points of view, which range from the farce to the surreal, these crusade stories all speak in harmony, as they reveal life's stunning surprises and twisted ironies. The tales also speak for life against death, for love against apathy, and for the human spirit against all forms of oppression. But as you weigh the pros and cons of dragon-slaying, take care to watch out for the tempters and demons of inwardness. Beware the dragons of the mind.
- Contents:
- Art of addiction
- Wilderness interior
- The art of thirst
- The Japanese waltzing mouse
- The tower
- The art of losing you
- Naming the storm
- Victor, the victim
- Not far from the kingdom
- Fall of a sparrow
- Mirror, rope, ladder
- No hard feelings
- The storyteller
- The Nassau Street Theatre
- The poetry-eaters
- Renunciation
- I hate Mondays
- Séance
- Subtracting the world
- The session player
- Talking of Michelangelo
- Marriage quartet
- The severed head
- The pros & cons of dragon-slaying
- Documenting the waves
- Lost alphabet
- Reading the gallery
- Attempt
- Endless stairs
- Apparition
- Preliminary notes for a work on humiliation
- The hat.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 8, 2016).
- Contains:
- Labriola, Anthony. Art of addiction.
- ISBN:
- 1-68114-039-X
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