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6%OFFCathy Stonehouse - Something About the Animal - 9781897231982 - V9781897231982
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Something About the Animal

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Description for Something About the Animal Paperback. A first collection of short fiction by the well-regarded writer and editor Cathy Stonehouse. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 285.
In Something About the Animal, Cathy Stonehouse's first collection of short fiction, the world keeps coming apart at the seams: these are stories of imminent and often destructive crisis, which in their form and structure capture the hysterical edge of hallucinatory madness in a way few writers have ever managed. These are stories about the search for meaning, of fragile, haunted understanding; real life horror stories, stories bleakly, blackly humorous, but also imbued with real hope, generosity, and beauty; stories simply not reducible to cover copy. Cathy Stonehouse is a nightmarishly gifted author, and Something About the Animal is ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781897231982
SKU
V9781897231982
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About Cathy Stonehouse
Cathy Stonehouse: Cathy Stonehouse is the author of a poetry collection, The Words I Know (Press Gang Publishers, 1994). Her writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) has also appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and anthologies including The Globe and Mail, The Literary Review of Canada, Descant, Grain, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Dropped Threads 3: Beyond the Small Circle (Random House ... Read more

Reviews for Something About the Animal
"Stonehouse's skill lies in her ability to render a topsy-turvy world without alienating her reader. Her writing is disarming and fearless ... The violence, pain, and vulnerability Stonehouse seems drawn to creatively make for intense reading, yet an ease with shifts in time, a mastery of suspense, and perfect, revealing last lines soften the blows." - The Malahat Review "The ... Read more

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