Private Performance - Softcover

Radu, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550650106 ISBN 13: 9781550650105

Publisher: Vehicule Press, 2006

Synopsis

Winner of the 1991 QSPELL Fiction Prize, these carefully crafted fictions expose the damaged lives of an exotic assortment of characters. All is not as it seems to be -- the face these characters show is not the only face one sees. Finely controlled as they are, these stories are expressions of desperation, and though apparently cool and dispassionate, they reverberate with emotional tension.

About this title

About the Author

As a writer of short fiction whose very first collection The Cost of Living was nominated for the Governor Generals Award, Radu evinces a sure voice and deft hand. Of his previous book Earthbound, also published by DC Books, a reviewer in The Fiddlehead states 'the variety is dazzling and somewhat daunting because Radu writes convincingly in all of these voices.' Anatanas Sileika confirms in The Toronto Star that Radus earlier book of stories, A Private Performance, is a 'collection of sparkling gems.' Years of crafting the art of the short story has led to Radus mastery of effect and style, not to mention an undercurrent of humour and wit, which enables him to handle emotionally charged and complex dramas. In the words of Prairie Fire reviewing Radus collection Sex in Russia, 'displays the necessary empathy to reveal his protagonists natures, while his morally centered prose provides perspective.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vehicule Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550650106
• ISBN 13: 9781550650105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160