Meteor Storm

Tefs, Wayne

ISBN 10: 0888013442 / ISBN 13: 9780888013446

Published by Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, MB, 2009

About this Item

INSCRIBED BY WAYNE TEFS; As New condition; In the stories of Meteor Storm, men are brutal and hard, women endure, and children watch helplessly as the men around them fight for survival. Master storyteller Wayne Tefs catches the moments where hard-edge men crash into the limits of their power, where their absolute authority is challenged, their self-control shaken, and their manhood threatened.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Meteor Storm
• Publisher: Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, MB
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0888013442
• ISBN 13: 9780888013446
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Meteor Storm is populated with men--fathers, brothers, uncles--who struggle with the missteps in their pasts and endure, sometimes with resignation, sometimes with a puzzled and angry dissatisfaction, their present lives.
Set in the 1960s and 70s, many of the stories in Meteor Storm revolve around Red Rock, Ontario, a mining town where it is never easy come and easy go. The narrators of these 14 tales are in transition to adulthood, where the questions of what masculinity is, or needs to be, in the modern world are at are presented, in stark and often violent ways.
In "Sunrise" the calm of an early morning is disturbed by distraught young man bringing news of two horrible deaths. "Walleyes" recounts how a lazy vacation afternoon among friends can devolve to the cusp of violence. And in "Red Rock and After" (winner of a Canadian Magazine Fiction Prize and a Journey Prize finalist) a family suffers through a string of bankruptcies, but retains their optimism about the future.
Tefs's writing style is spare, direct, and reflective and he offers a unique view of where hard-edged men crash into the limits of their power.

About the Author

Wayne Tefs was born in Winnipeg and grew up in northwestern Ontario. He has edited a number of anthologies and published eight novels and a work of non-fiction. His novel Moon Lake received the Margaret Laurence Award for 2000 and his novel won the 2007 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. He lives in Winnipeg with his wife and son.