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Title: |
The Young in Their Country |
| Sub-title: |
and Other Stories |
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| By (author): |
Richard` Cumyn |
| ISBN10-13: |
1926531027 : 9781926531021 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
215x155mm |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Weight: |
.435 Kg. |
| Published: |
Enfield & Wizenty - September 2010 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| The young occupy a territory of their own, a foreign land inaccessible to nostalgia and regret. In these eloquent, arresting stories, an assortment of exotic youth send tremors through the foundations of the established world: four summer students interrupt a once-famous artistā s retreat from society; a naive job seeker shakes a frustrated employee out of middle-aged complacency; and a high school studentā s safety is threatened by her teacher's passion for the Riel Rebellion. Unsentimental, often funny, rarely nostalgic, each story of The Young in Their Country is a complete world. |
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"He is one of our finest story writers: exacting, surprising, deftly attuned both to language and to character, tough-minded and large-hearted at the same time - often within the same sentence." -- Steven Heighton, author of Afterlands
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"Each of the stories in this powerful collection is a genuine surprise, unfolding with agility and grace through its unusual characters, unpredictable events, sharply distilled dialogue, and impeccably precise description." -- Diane Schoemperlen, author of At a Loss for Words
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"Richard Cumyn is a writer who doesn't like to be boxed in. The stories collected here resist pigeonholing..." -- Quill & Quire
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"Cumyn's great talent as a writer is how he mines ordinary situations to reveal a skewed vision of the world." -- Steven Mayoff, Carte Blanche Best of 2010
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"... the prose and characterization are so good that I trust them at least as much as myself." -- Literary Review of Canada
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"Cumyn has absolute control over the very clear and clever narration of his characters, and can draw them into madness and violence without also drawing his prose into histrionics." -- Antigonish Review
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