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The encyclopedia of lies : stories / by Christopher Gudgeon.
In these sixteen stories, Christopher Gudgeon, bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Song of Kosovo, takes a heartbreaking and hilarious look into the lives, loves, sexual obsessions and delusions that inform a grand cast of off-kilter characters. Here is a gay couple who persevere with their marriage plans as the world, literally, crumbles around them, a woman who discovers the mysterious collection of letters that reveals a terrifying truth about her deceased fiancée, a dutiful son, locked in an life-or-death marathon race with his famous father, and a baby who becomes infested with fruit flies, sending his adoptive parents into a spiral of recrimination and self-doubt. At once bitterly funny, provocative and poignant, this remarkable collection builds on Gudgeon's growing literary reputation, offering up the work of a great storyteller at his very best.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781772140750 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 209 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Vancouver : Anvil Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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| Subject: | Short stories, Canadian. |
| Genre: | Short stories. |
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