Vital Signs
The Collected Novellas
Will be published approx. on 10. November 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-77196-052-6 (ISBN)
Description
"One of Canada's best kept literary secrets."-Harper's Magazine "Hilarious, touching and delightful ...brilliant concision and understated humor."-Los Angeles Times Vital Signs brings together the collected novellas by a modern master of the form, by a writer who Alice Munro has said "often comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer can get." Elegant, wry, compassionate, and mischievous, with echoes of Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh, and Muriel Spark, Vital Signs will pierce both funny bone and heart. The author of more than a dozen books, John Metcalf is one of the most celebrated writers, editors, and anthologists in Canada.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Emeryville
Canada
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
512 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77196-052-6 (9781771960526)
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Person
John Metcalf was Senior Editor at the Porcupine's Quill until 2005, and is now Fiction Editor at Biblioasis. A scintillating writer and magisterial editor and anthologist, he is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including Standing Stones: Selected Stories, Adult Entertainment, Going Down Slow, and Kicking Against the Pricks. He lives in Ottawa with his wife, Myrna.