Bad News of the Heart (Canadian Literature Series) - Softcover

Glover, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564782867 ISBN 13: 9781564782861

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009

Synopsis

A seeing-eye dog leads a blind man into a frozen river, a southern Baptist loses his memory and finds true love in Bel Air, an obese dot.com executive has "anorgasmic" latex sex with her CEO, and a homeless man in New York creates an intellectual universe based on Post-it notes stuck to the inside of his cardboard box shelter--Douglas Glover's stories are wildly inventive, deadpan comedies of our universal human catastrophe. They are sly, demanding and wise--stories about language, desire and love (in a very dark place). The humor veers from the wry and sardonic to the salacious, mordant and playful. And always there are moments of such stark emotional intimacy that the reader slides, almost without noticing, from laughter to lament.

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Review:

Praise for Douglas Glover: "Glover's style is crisp and precise, his observations chillingly perceptive and satirically biting.'

"A very nervy writer, the kind who does not play safe and shoots at whatever moon he allows himself to aim at."

"Glover is preoccupied with the complicated interweavings of good and evil, and he juggles language superbly."

"Sad, sexy, and significant." (starred review) -- Kirkus Reviews

"Sad, sexy, and significant." (starred review)--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Douglas Glover is a Canadian writer. He has published five short story collections, four novels (including Elle which won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction), two books of essays, Notes Home from a Prodigal Son and Attack of the Copula Spiders, and The Enamoured Knight, a book-length meditation on Don Quixote and novel form.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564782867
• ISBN 13: 9781564782861
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212