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Some Extremely Boring Drives

Some Extremely Boring Drives


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From the multi-talented author of Inventory and Open Pit comes a new collection of short stories, filled with lost souls drifting through exotic locales, reinventing themselves on the fly. Marguerite Pigeon's gifts for quick characterisation and muscular dialogue are on full display in this collection, where you will encounter competitors in an endurance race at the edge of the world; the secret lives of stray cats, and those who try to catch them night after night; an interview with a once-famous musician who seems to be losing touch with reality; a date in Mexico City that ends in a kidnapping; a woman who comes face to face with her mirror image and finds that she has taken another path; and a girl who's determined to never, ever stand still again.

About the Author :
After working in radio and television news, Marguerite Pigeon travelled to South America to volunteer with an indigenous organization dealing with land issues. Her writing has appeared in Grain, subTerrain, and The Dalhousie Review. Her first poetry collection, Inventory, was published in 2010.

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Praise for Some Extremely Boring Drives:

"To use “boring” in a book title takes confidence, to add “extremely” may seem brash, but Marguerite Pigeon deserves to be cocky in naming her first collection of stories."
~ Jade Colbert, Globe and Mail

“Each story reveals a peculiar and unique world peopled by genuinely interesting inhabitants.”
~ Dana Hansen, Quill & Quire

"Driven to extremes, each of Pigeon’s characters is stripped of the coping mechanism that has kept them moving forward; when they’re jolted out of the trance of the ordinary, we don’t know which way they’ll go, or even if they will survive. But one thing is certain—they will never be the same."
~ Kristine Morris, Foreword Reviews

"A robust collection that is memorable from the first page to its last ... [w]ith a book of poetry, a novel, and now this collection of short stories, Pigeon has proven herself a writer of many talents, and one worthy of our attention."
~ Jessica Rose, Room Magazine

“Where the characters are going and whether they are in control is debatable but they’re always behind the wheel, zipping through diverse landscapes without a GPS. Pigeon lures the reader into the backseat with all the tension and anticipation of a road trip without the “are we there yets?”
~ Ali Bryan, author of Roost

“Marguerite Pigeon’s stories bore through the everyday to those pockets where the best story-stuff hides. She captures her characters as they’re driven to extremes, in the sparkling, miserable moments between ordinary and ordinary.”
~ Naomi K. Lewis, author of I Know Who You Remind Me Of


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781927063750
  • Publisher: NeWest Press
  • Publisher Imprint: NeWest Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1927063752
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 454 gr


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