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Despair and Other Stories Of Ottawa
[Paperback - 1998]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Short Stories
Additional Category: Ethnic Fiction - Literary Fiction
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart | ISBN: 9780771006661 | Pages: 232
Shipping Weight: .306 | Dimensions: 5.5 x .63 x 8.48 inches

These eight stories reveal a world that’s both recognizable and strange: cities of anxiety and violence, where quiet inhabitants lead outwardly banal lives that conceal sinister interiors. The premises, both fantastic and surreal, are also eerily plausible; they often follow the logic of dreams where the real can appear in disguise. Though geographically rooted, the setting – from Ottawa to Toronto and the South of France – take on an ephemeral dimension: the geography is of the subconscious.

With his darkly philosophical bent and sly humour, Alexis has fashioned an underworld and limned it with light. Despair quakes with life and sings with the imaginative brilliance of one of the most accomplished new talents writing today.

André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His most recent novel,Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His debut novel,Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His other books includePastoral(nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize),Asylum,Beauty and Sadness,Ingrid & the Wolf,Despair and Other Stories of OttawaandLambton, Kent and Other Vistas: A Play.

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