Fidelity : Short Fiction

Redhill, Michael

ISBN 10: 0385659466 / ISBN 13: 9780385659468

Published by Anchor Canada, Canada, 2003

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First Canadian printing (complete number line). Soil mark on the bottom edge. French wraps have light edge/rub wear and a stain mark along the bottom edge visible inside the flap fold. Actual book for sale pictured. 14.7 x 21 x 1.4 cm, wt400g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 015043

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fidelity : Short Fiction

Publisher: Anchor Canada, Canada

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: VG

Edition: First Edition Paperback.

About this title

Synopsis:

From acclaimed poet and Giller-nominated novelist Michael Redhill comes Fidelity, a subtle but searing collection of short fiction.

By turns brooding, strange, and funny, Fidelity probes the blandishments of temptation, the swooning submission to concupiscence, the illusory redemption of desire, the ambivalence at the heart of the most intimate trust, and, most importantly, the irony that when we betray, we betray ourselves first.

His characters are not monsters, or really even sinners. Their vulnerabilities are our own: a business-trip affair leaves a man changed in ways he cannot anticipate; a young girl's sexuality inflicts unexpected wounds on her family; the young amanuensis of a 156-year-old Civil War veteran tries to defend his hero from accusations of desertion; a father of four, pressured by his wife to undergo a vasectomy, gradually learns that he is capable of infidelity when he contemplates the intolerable loss of his virility.

Spell-binding and crackling with an unflinching attention to emotional detail, Fidelity looks boldly at the transgressions of desire that seduce, and sometimes break, body and soul.

About the Author:

Michael Redhill is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Asphodel (1997) and Light-crossing (2001). As a playwright, his most recent works are Doubt and Building Jerusalem, winner of the 2000 Dora Award for Outstanding New Play and finalist for the 2001 Governor General's Award. He is one of the editors of Brick, a literary magazine. His novel, Martin Sloane, was shortlisted for The Giller Prize, The Trillium Award, The Books in Canada/Amazon.com First Novel Prize, the City of Toronto Book Award, and it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Canada/Caribbean.