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Animal person : stories / Alexander MacLeod.
"Alexander MacLeod's highly anticipated second collection carries us to the edge and then waits, for just a second, in that pure moment of stillness between desire and action"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771029882 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 241 pages : music ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Lagomorph -- The dead want -- What exactly do you think you're looking at? -- Everything underneath -- The entertainer -- The ninth concession -- Once removed -- The closing date. |
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| Genre: | Short stories. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC MacLe | 31681010270759 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, CBC Books, and the Globe and Mail.
From Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives. Named a Canadian Fiction title to watch by the CBC, Quill & Quire, and 49th Shelf, and a "must-read book" by Maclean's. Featuring stories published in The New Yorker, Granta, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.
Startling, suspenseful, deeply humane yet alert to the undertow of our darker instincts, the eight stories in Animal Person illuminate what it means to exist in the perilous space between desire and action, and to have your faith in what you hold true buckle and give way.
   A petty argument between two sisters is interrupted by an unexpected visitor. Adjoining motel rooms connect a family on the brink of a new life with a criminal whose legacy will haunt them for years to come. A connoisseur of other peopleâs secrets is undone by what he finds in a piece of lost luggage. In the wake of a tragic accident, a young man must contend with what is owed to the living and to the dead. And in the O. Henry Award-winning story âLagomorph,â a manâs relationship with his familyâs long-lived pet rabbit opens up to become a profound exploration of how a marriage fractures.
   Muscular and tender, beautifully crafted, and alive with an elemental power, these stories explore the struggle for meaning and connection in an age when many of us feel cut off from so much, not least ourselves. This is a collection that beats with raw emotion and shimmers with the complexity of our shared human experience, and it confirms Alexander MacLeodâs reputation as a modern master of the short story.
