Fidelity: Stories - Couverture souple

Redhill, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385659466 ISBN 13 : 9780385659468

Editeur : Anchor Canada, 2003

Synopsis

From acclaimed poet and Giller Prize-winning novelist Michael Redhill comes Fidelity, a subtle but searing collection of short fiction.

By turns brooding, strange, and funny, Fidelity probes the blandishments of temptation, the swooning submission to concupiscence, the illusory redemption of desire, the ambivalence at the heart of the most intimate trust, and, most importantly, the irony that when we betray, we betray ourselves first.

His characters are not monsters, or really even sinners. Their vulnerabilities are our own: a business-trip affair leaves a man changed in ways he cannot anticipate; a young girl's sexuality inflicts unexpected wounds on her family; the young amanuensis of a 156-year-old Civil War veteran tries to defend his hero from accusations of desertion; a father of four, pressured by his wife to undergo a vasectomy, gradually learns that he is capable of infidelity when he contemplates the intolerable loss of his virility.

Spell-binding and crackling with an unflinching attention to emotional detail, Fidelity looks boldly at the transgressions of desire that seduce, and sometimes break, body and soul.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MICHAEL REDHILL is the author of the novels Martin Sloane, shortlisted for the Giller Prize and winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award, Consolation, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and most recently, Bellevue Square, winner of the 2017 Giller Prize. He has written a novel for young adults, six collections of poetry, and four plays, including the internationally celebrated Goodness. He has also written a series of crime novels under the name Inger Ash Wolfe, one of which, The Calling, was made into a movie with Susan Sarandon and Donald Sutherland. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anchor Canada
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385659466
• ISBN 13: 9780385659468
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible