Sentimental Exorcisms - Couverture souple

Derry, David

 
9781552452240: Sentimental Exorcisms
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1552452247 ISBN 13 : 9781552452240
Editeur : Coach House Books, 2005

Synopsis

The return of a former lover saps a retired librarian's faith in punctuation; a judge must compulsively narrate his neighbour into ignominy; and the glories of market analysis prove as deceptive as human connection when Trevor Spates' visit to a stripper goes awry. Meanwhile, poor Tim Pine must face his coprophobia in a most public and lamentable office misadventure.

Sentimental Exorcisms is a collection of tragicomic satire, latter-day-Victorian collisions of Nabokov and Proust. The men in these long short stories have grand designs and petty fears, or modest designs and grand fears. Desires, scapegoats, idylls, and obtrusive egos: the golden calves they can't quite bear to kill. With their ramparts crumbling around them, each mounts an exuberant defence in a vacuum of self-absorption.

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À propos de l?auteur


David Derry lives in Toronto. Having been seduced by farming, boat-building, and chauffeuring, and having flirted with academia, he more recently discovered the insular pleasure of drafting and amending contracts, where we find him today, working as a legal assistant. Sentimental Exorcisms is his first book.

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Éditeur
Coach House Books
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1552452247
ISBN 13 
9781552452240
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
220
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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