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Meagre Tarmac
Clark Blaise
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Description for Meagre Tarmac
Paperback. An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, by a North American master of short fiction. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 242.
Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award "Clark Blaise's brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of individuals for whom we come to care deeply -- and a portrait of an Indo-American way of life that shimmers before our eyes with the rich and compelling detail for which Clark Blaise's fiction is renowned ...The Meagre Tarmac is a remarkable accomplishment."--Joyce Carol Oates An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, ... Read more
Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award "Clark Blaise's brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of individuals for whom we come to care deeply -- and a portrait of an Indo-American way of life that shimmers before our eyes with the rich and compelling detail for which Clark Blaise's fiction is renowned ...The Meagre Tarmac is a remarkable accomplishment."--Joyce Carol Oates An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781926845159
SKU
V9781926845159
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99-15
About Clark Blaise
Clark Blaise (1940-), Canadian and American, is the author of 20 books of fiction and nonfiction. A longtime advocate for the literary arts in North America, Blaise has taught writing and literature at Emory, Skidmore, Columbia, NYU, Sir George Williams, UC-Berkeley, SUNY-Stony Brook, and the David Thompson University Centre. In 1968, he founded the postgraduate Creative Writing Program at Concordia ... Read more
Reviews for Meagre Tarmac
Praise for Clark Blaise Award Recipient from the Academy of Arts & Letters Officer of the Order of Canada "The elegant stories in The Meagre Tarmac constitute a warning of sorts ... the old tables are turning."
Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books "Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of."
Quill & ... Read more
Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books "Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of."
Quill & ... Read more