Clark Blaise This Time, That Place : Selected Stories Paperback Book

Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.Quill & Quire"If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxietyridden, shimmer cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twentyfirst centuries," writes Margaret Atwood, "read the stories of Clark Blaise." This Time, That Place draws together twentyfour stories that span the entirety of Blaises career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across place and time, through and between languagesfrom Floridas Confederate swamps, to workingclass Pittsburgh, to Montreal and abroadthey demonstrate Blaises profound mastery of the short story and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identity as fallacy, fable, and dream. This Time, That Place Selected Stories confirms Clark Blaise as one of the best and most enduring masters of the formon either side of our shared borders. | Clark Blaise This Time, That Place : Selected Stories Paperback Book