An assured debut by an award-winning writer, this collection of eight stories gives us flawed, sometimes delusional, but always human characters: a suburban dad, stressed and irritated by the annual mother-in-law visit, sticks the yappy family dog in the barbecue and convinces himself that his life is near perfect until his oldest daughter reaches for the starter button; a kw-it-all perfectionist tries to help save the world by billeting a young woman from Haiti and her infant son, while her own grown-up son who has threatened to buy a gun, hides in the basement; a down-and-out drywaller performs a courageous act of self-preservation by drilling a hole through his tooth; a couple of first-time homebuyers try to fix a leaky roof, a flea infestation, and a basement flood, all the while assuming it can't getting any worse until one of them develops an eating disorder and the other loses his job.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Insomniac Press
GTIN
9781897415306
ISBN-10
1897415303
ISBN-13
9781897415306
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106525977
Product Key Features
Author
Anne Perdue
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories & Fiction Anthologies
Publication Year
2011
Type
Short Stories
Genre
Short Stories & Fiction Anthologies
Dimensions
Weight
244g
Depth
13 mm
Height
130mm
Width
205mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Toronto
Spine
13mm
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
16/06/2011
PublicationDate
November 27, 2010
Dimensions
130x205x13mm
Country of Publication
Canada
release date
16/06/2011
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