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Off the Record (Paperback)
John Metcalf; Contributions by Caroline Adderson, Kristyn Dunnion, Cynthia Flood, Shaena Lambert, …
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R401
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A collection of stories and essays gathered by literary critic,
writer, and editor John Metcalf. Featuring six Canadian fiction
writers, among them the winners of the Rogers Writers’ Trust
Fiction Prize, The Butler Book Prize, and the Marian Engel Award,
these collected works offer an in-depth look at the processes and
inspiration behind their stories.
Two crystalline novellas linked by one devastating crime: Say This
is an immersive meditation on the interplay between memory, trauma,
and narrative. It's a cold spring in Baltimore, 2018, when the
email arrives: the celebrity journalist hopes Eva will tell him
everything about the sexual affair she had as a teen with her older
cousin, a man now in federal prison for murder. Thirteen years
earlier, Lenore-May answers the phone to the nightmare news that
her stepson's body has been found near Mount Hood, and homicide is
suspected. Following Eva's unsettling ambivalence towards her
confusing relationship, and constructing a portrait of her cousin's
victim via collaged perspectives of the slain man's family, these
two linked novellas borrow, interrogate, sometimes dismantle the
tropes of true crime; lyrically render the experiences of grief and
dissociation; and brilliantly mine the fault lines of power and
consent, silence, justice, accountability, and class. Say This is a
startling exploration of the devastating effects of trauma on
personal identity.
An A.V. Club Book to Read for June 2019 In moments of exile and
self-exile, exodus and return, Elise Levine's uncanny narratives
lay bare the secret grammar of their characters' psyches. An
ill-tempered divinity-school candidate refuses to minister to a
dying man's wife; a couple fails to connect as they tour an ersatz
cave in the south of France; holy women grieve in medieval England,
and a pregnant runaway hitches a ride with a Church leader of
dubious intentions. Propelled by their longing for pasts that no
longer exist, these reluctant Adams and contemporary Eves confront
the unspoken, the maligned, the abject aspects of their inner
geographies, mining them for gems that glint and scatter in the
light. Uncompromising and honest, lyrical and wry, This Wicked
Tongue dares to tell the truth about the places we have come from
and the new ones we might find.
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