Silent Cruise: A Novella and Stories

by Taylor, Timothy

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Book desription: Counterpoint, 2002. Paperback book is in new, never been read condition. Inside of book pages are crisp and clean. No creasing on edges, no stains, no dog ears. Very minor shelf wear on outside of paperback cover. Publisher: Counterpoint. ISBN 1582432163. 2002 edition. 320 pages. Size: 8.5 x 6.5 x 1. Additional pictures of condition are always available. BOOK DESCRIPTION: Silent Cruise, Timothy Taylor's first collection of short fiction, is a long, lush series of stories that will delight fans of his enormously successful debut novel, Stanley Park. Several of these strangely original stories are obliquely connected with each other (either through strange thematic turns or common characters), and they share with the novel a western Canada setting and an interest in food. Taylor begins with "Doves of Townsend," a piece about an antique buyer whose fetishization of beautiful made things is challenged by a calculated brush with the real world--in the form of a collection of butterflies found scattered across a table at a flea market. The author then moves into even more eclectic territory: in "The Resurrection Plant" an ostracized Jewish high school student in Edmonton shares a locker with a teenage tough who insists on displaying a Nazi flag; while in "The Boar's Head Easter" a Vancouver cook travels to Chicago to meet his mother's mysterious old flame, nursing a half-spoken passion for his best friend's girlfriend all the while. The novella that concludes the collection, "NewStart 2.0TM," traces two artists from rural Saskatchewan through their truly bizarre lives to a confrontation in Rome, raising old questions about artistic production in a strange and unusual fashion. This collection of stories by the author of the novel Stanley Park [BKL Mr 15 02] includes "Doves of Townsend," winner of the Journey Prize, the Canadian counterpart of the O. Henry Prize, for best short story of 2000. "Doves" presents Clare, who inherited the collectibles business that grew out of her father's passion for rare knives. Mourning his suicide, she rediscovers, through a family friend's kindness, the world's beauty in the microcosm of a Postman butterfly. As lovely in its own way is "Smoke's Fortune," about the shooting of a rabid Doberman amid the odd splendor of carefully organized car radiators, fenders, and hubcaps in a junkyard.. Paperback. New/None. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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