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This is a collection of stories for people who feel that reality is not the best deal going. Tim Conley explores the fragility of our perceptions as well as the illusions that we so badly need. Sometimes spare, these sixteen stories move between the obsessive and the disinterested, the extraordinary and the humdrum. In 'Means to an End', a man who has not quite come to the end of his rope meets a woman who wants to borrow it; in 'Constellation', an unforeseen meteorite destroys an astrologists convention; a taciturn botanist confronts his unfaithful wife in 'The Greenhouse Effect'; and in 'Last One In', an argument about which man has the better sense of hearing ends in disaster. Influenced by -- but expanding upon -- the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Queneau, and the European avant-garde, Conleys work combines realism with metaphysical concerns to create a comedic, yet always striking, first collection of fictions.

About the Author :
Tim Conleys fiction, essays, poetry, and translations have appeared in numerous magazines in five countries. He runs In Case of Emergency Press, a fine press chapbook series, and lives in St. Catharines where he teaches at Brock University.

Review :
A clever, inventive, immensely appealing collection. -- Barbara Gowdy, author of The Romantic and We So Seldom Look on LoveTim Conley's characters question the boundaries of what can be known -- and challenge the reader with the implications of living in an unknowable world. His stories tell us again that the silences are often the loudest notes in the aria. A welcome new voice with a unique vision. -- Michael Bryson, The Danforth Review "A clever, inventive, immensely appealing collection." -- Barbara Gowdy, author of The Romantic and We So Seldom Look on Love"Tim Conley's characters question the boundaries of what can be known -- and challenge the reader with the implications of living in an unknowable world. His stories tell us again that the silences are often the loudest notes in the aria. A welcome new voice with a unique vision." -- Michael Bryson, The Danforth Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781897178133
  • Publisher: Insomniac Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Insomniac Press
  • Height: 155 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Width: 230 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1897178131
  • Publisher Date: 22 May 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 185 gr


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