Earthbound

by Kenneth Radu

Overview

'Most of the stories in Earthbound, if not set in Montreal or another specific city or town, take place in a recognizable North America of the here and now. But a few reach back into the past and recreate locales outside of our immediate experience. The variety is dazzling and somewhat daunting because Radu writes convincingly in all of these voices and from all of these places.' — Ian Colford, The Fiddlehead

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781897190876
Publisher:	D C Books
Publication date:	11/15/2012
Edition description:	With surgical precision and understated humour, in Earthbound Kenneth Radu once again demonstrate
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Kenneth Radu has published books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including The Cost of Living, shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. His collection of stories A Private Performance and his novel Distant Relations both received the Quebec Writers' Federation Award for best English-language fiction. His last novel is The Purest of Human Pleasures (Penguin). He is also the author of Sex in Russia: New & Selected Stories (DC Books Canada). Born in Windsor, Ontario, he taught for many years at John Abbott College near Montreal and now writes full time.

Editorial Reviews

'Like a well-honed knife, Kenneth Radus prose cuts through the gamut of circumstances depicted in this collection. Through his deft and brilliant use of simile and metaphor, and an appropriate sprinkling of the various vernaculars heard in the Canadian mosaic, together with his empathy for human fragilities, Kenneth Radu captures the attention of the reader as he depicts ordinary people in unusual, sometimes extraordinary situations.' — Annie Vigna,Freefall, Fall 2014

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