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Keath Fraser

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Description:Keath Fraser is without a doubt one of the most original voices in Canadian letters. He is a writer of truly wonderous imagination and a master of the art of narrative invention. "13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger" is a selection of eighteen of his best stories from the past twenty-five years. Here is a collection of short fiction that showcases the sheer genius of this extraordinary writer, who has been far too under-recognized and who may be one of the best kept secrets in Canadian literature.On a gulf island, a woman with defective syntax prepares for an important speech. A baritone opera singer in San Francisco finds elegiac flight from an imprisoning tire farm and his present legacy of glory holes. A retired diplomat struggles undiplomatically to overcome crippling decline with the help of a teenage girl. Other stories from the West Coast tell of transgressing couples, kidnapped children, rooming-house men on welfare.Narrative journeys elsewhere also carry unexpected ends: a retired doctor and his wife drift out of control in a balloon's gondola over the Gulf of Thailand; a lover of rock 'n' roll flies to a Mexican Club Med seeking solace for her lost voice. In this masterful collection the world opens up into Okanagan orchards, a bone-house embassy in Phnom Penh, a loquacious glass palace in the Rajasthan desert. Lyrical and inventive, subversive and urbane, Keath Fraser's stories are populated with an uncommon breadth of voices and classes, professions and plots, cities and mirages.Fraser makes the domestic seem exotic and invest the far-away with threatening familiarity. These are stories that affect us in deeply surprising ways.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger: The Best Stories of Keath Fraser. To get started finding 13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger: The Best Stories of Keath Fraser, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Keath Fraser is without a doubt one of the most original voices in Canadian letters. He is a writer of truly wonderous imagination and a master of the art of narrative invention. "13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger" is a selection of eighteen of his best stories from the past twenty-five years. Here is a collection of short fiction that showcases the sheer genius of this extraordinary writer, who has been far too under-recognized and who may be one of the best kept secrets in Canadian literature.On a gulf island, a woman with defective syntax prepares for an important speech. A baritone opera singer in San Francisco finds elegiac flight from an imprisoning tire farm and his present legacy of glory holes. A retired diplomat struggles undiplomatically to overcome crippling decline with the help of a teenage girl. Other stories from the West Coast tell of transgressing couples, kidnapped children, rooming-house men on welfare.Narrative journeys elsewhere also carry unexpected ends: a retired doctor and his wife drift out of control in a balloon's gondola over the Gulf of Thailand; a lover of rock 'n' roll flies to a Mexican Club Med seeking solace for her lost voice. In this masterful collection the world opens up into Okanagan orchards, a bone-house embassy in Phnom Penh, a loquacious glass palace in the Rajasthan desert. Lyrical and inventive, subversive and urbane, Keath Fraser's stories are populated with an uncommon breadth of voices and classes, professions and plots, cities and mirages.Fraser makes the domestic seem exotic and invest the far-away with threatening familiarity. These are stories that affect us in deeply surprising ways.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger: The Best Stories of Keath Fraser. To get started finding 13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger: The Best Stories of Keath Fraser, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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