Zolitude : stories / Paige Cooper.
Material type: TextPublisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 236 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781771962179
- 1771962178
- Short stories. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Cooper, Paige | Available | 33111009205507 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
WINNER OF THE 2018 QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FIRST BOOK PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018
A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR
Fantastical, magnetic, and harsh--these are the women in Paige Cooper's debut short story collection Zolitude. They are women who built time machines when they were nine, who buy plane tickets for lovers who won't arrive. They are sisters writhing with dreams, blasé about sex but beggared by love--while the police horses have talons and vengeance is wrought by eagles the size of airplanes. Broken-down motorbikes and housebroken tyrannosaurs, cheap cigarettes and mail bombs--Cooper finds the beautiful and the disturbing in both the surreal and the everyday. Troubling, carnal, and haunting, these stories are otherworldly travelogues through banal, eco-fabulist dystopias. Zolitude is a gorgeous, sad, and sexy work of slipstream and an atlas of fantastic isolation. The monstrous is human here, and tender.
"A John Metcalf book".
Zolitude -- Spiderhole -- Ryan & Irene, Irene & Ryan -- Thanatos -- The emperor -- Slave craton -- Moriah -- The tin luck -- Record of working -- La folie -- Pre-occupants -- Retirement -- The roar -- Vazova on love.
"Paige Cooper's short stories catalogue moments in love. These are stories about women who built time machines when they were nine, or who predict cataclysm, or who think their dreams are reality. They include police horses with talons and giant eagles and weredeer. At the center of it all is love. And if love is the problem, what is the solution? Being closer? Or being alone?"-- Provided by publisher.