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Sentimental Exorcisms
David Derry
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Description for Sentimental Exorcisms
Paperback. Sentimental Exorcisms is a collection of tragicomic satire, latter-day-Victorian collisions of Nabokov and Proust. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 285.
The return of a former lover saps a retired librarian's faith in punctuation; a judge must compulsively narrate his neighbour into ignominy; and the glories of market analysis prove as deceptive as human connection when Trevor Spates' visit to a stripper goes awry. Meanwhile, poor Tim Pine must face his coprophobia in a most public and lamentable office misadventure. Sentimental Exorcisms is a collection of tragicomic satire, latter-day-Victorian collisions of Nabokov and Proust. The men in these long short stories have grand designs and petty fears, or modest designs and grand fears. Desires, scapegoats, idylls, and obtrusive egos: the ... Read more
The return of a former lover saps a retired librarian's faith in punctuation; a judge must compulsively narrate his neighbour into ignominy; and the glories of market analysis prove as deceptive as human connection when Trevor Spates' visit to a stripper goes awry. Meanwhile, poor Tim Pine must face his coprophobia in a most public and lamentable office misadventure. Sentimental Exorcisms is a collection of tragicomic satire, latter-day-Victorian collisions of Nabokov and Proust. The men in these long short stories have grand designs and petty fears, or modest designs and grand fears. Desires, scapegoats, idylls, and obtrusive egos: the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452240
SKU
V9781552452240
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Ref
99-15
About David Derry
David Derry lives in Toronto. Having been seduced by farming, boat-building, and chauffeuring, and having flirted with academia, he more recently discovered the insular pleasure of drafting and amending contracts, where we find him today, working as a legal assistant. Sentimental Exorcisms is his first book.
Reviews for Sentimental Exorcisms
'Derry specializes in the most delightfully self-unaware characters. These are delicious portrayals of delusion.'
Uptown 'Derry's cohort of misanthropic, sexually repressed anti-heroes possesses a spooky ability to get under your skin.'
Prairie Fire 'Arrestingly witty.'
Vue Weekly
Uptown 'Derry's cohort of misanthropic, sexually repressed anti-heroes possesses a spooky ability to get under your skin.'
Prairie Fire 'Arrestingly witty.'
Vue Weekly