Fabulous fictions & peculiar practices : Leon Rooke's narratives presented herewith are based on figments of Tony Calzetta's graphic imagination.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rooke, Leon, author.

Contributor:

Calzetta, Tony, 1945- artist.

Language:

English

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2016.

Place of Publication:

Erin, Ontario : The Porcupine's Quill, [2016]

Summary:

"Leon Rooke and Tony Calzetta masterfully unfold a narrative of society's utter indifference to the sorry plight of the artist. It's a unique confluence of image and text."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

FABULOUS FICTIONS. Word Pictures

1.How God Talks in His Sleep

2.Bank President'sAddress to Minions on the Eve of the Release of the Annual Financial Report Showing Profits Heretofore Unseen in the World

3.Cezanne's Muse

4.The Ravening Beasts at Fairy Godfather House

5.Ms Smith Is Hard Put to Explain to Her Husband How She Came to Spend the Night Unexpectedly in Philip's Nightgown

6.The Scroll of Civilization Survives the Restless Deep, Sights Through Rusted Periscope the Uninhabited Isle It May Call Home, and Navigates into Shore on a Calm Sea

7.Son of Scroll

8.Daughter of Son of Scroll

PECULIAR PRACTICES. 1.Snoop, Protége ́of Snap

2.I Spent This Day Toiling Over a Number of Scotswomen

3.Those Lousy Pessimists Sometimes Make a Guy So Blue All He Wants to Do Is Run Amuck

4.Peculiar Practices in Alberta Possibly Related to the Oil Boom

5.Narcissistic Eb and Unlucky Flo

6.Some Ideas about the Camping Experience Need Looking at Again

7.Critics Take on the Premier Showing of Tank's Documentary of the Closing Eye

8.Sullenness in Machines in Advance of Outright Rage

9.Let Us Steel Ourselves for the Appalling Scene Certain to Develop Should We Ever Declare Our Love for McTaggert'sWife

10.Comma Fucked.

Notes:

The "c" in peculiar is printed backwards on cover and title page.

ISBN:

0-88984-833-5

OCLC:

950464289