A Minor Planet for You : and Other Stories Paperback / softback
by Leslie Greentree
Part of the Currents series
Paperback / softback
Description
Told with arresting candor, Leslie Greentree's short fiction creates the satisfying sense of discovering someone's long-kept secret, or the guilty pleasure of overhearing a scathing conversation.
A housewife indulges in monthly purchases of specialty vinegar and savours her romantic fantasies about the local grocery store manager; a daughter catches glimpses of herself in the face of her mother's suffocating attentions; a minor astronomer accumulates star charts and wasted nights rather than tender moments with his wife.
A Minor Planet for You explores the often wry, sometimes dark but consistently fragile constellations of human relationships. "Intricately and subtly developed, a smart irony permeates these stories." Gloria Sawai "Leslie Greentree's stylistic see-sawing between comedy and tragedy is one of the main reasons why this book is hard to put down." Lisa Grekul
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:University of Alberta Press
- Publication Date:01/03/2006
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- ISBN:9780888644657
Information
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:University of Alberta Press
- Publication Date:01/03/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780888644657
