Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
Published on 10. April 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-14-317767-8 (ISBN)
Description
From an emerging master of short fiction and one of Canada's most distinctive voices, a collection of stories as heartbreaking as those of Lorrie Moore and as hilariously off-kilter as something out ofMcSweeney's.
Better Living through Plastic Explosives is a powerful depth charge of Zsuzsi Gartner's trademark dark humour and deadly satire. Whether she casts her eye on evolution and modern manhood when an upscale cul-de-sac is thrown into chaos after a redneck moves into the neighbourhood, international adoption, war photography, real estate, the movie industry, motivational speakers, or terrorism, Gartner filets the righteous and the ridiculous with dexterity in equal, glorious measure. These stories ruthlessly expose our covert fears and fathomless desires and allow us to snort with laughter-at the grotesque world we'd live in if we all got what we wanted.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-317767-8 (9780143177678)
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ZSUZSI GARTNER is the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlisted author of two widely acclaimed story collections, Better Living Through Plastics and All the Anxious Girls on Earth. Her fiction has been widely anthologizes, broadcast on CBC and NPR, and won numerous prized, including a 2016 National Magazine Award. She is also the editor of the award-winning fiction anthology Darwin's Bastard's: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow. Zsuzsi has been on the faculty of UBC's Creating Writing MFA program and many of the Banff Centre's writing programs, and is the founder and director of Writers Adventure Camp in Whistler, BC. Excerpts from The Beguiling, her debut novel, have appeared in The Walrus, SubTerrin, and Maisonneuve. She lives in Vancouver.