14 Stories by Mel Dagg (Paperback or Softback). This item is unavailable.14 Stories by Mel Dagg (Paperback or Softback)

Fourteen stories featuring characters caught in amazing circumstances. This collection follows the characters as they push new boundaries and explore the complexity of relationships. Each story reveals the intricacies of the human condition. Join them as they navigate through life choices. Through spare, haunting, dramatic prose, the reader will discover worlds of startling clarity. Powerful! Evocative! The stories resonate and bear revisiting.

Acclaim for Mel Dagg's fiction:

Dagg demonstrates extraordinary poise...while avoiding the sentimentalization the stories warn against
~ Montreal Gazette

a marvel of precision and personal vision
~ Alberta Report

genius when it comes to the art of fiction. I think of Mel as one of the more important voices now at work in Western Canada
~ Gary Geddes

artistic poise, the complexity of relationship, the smoothness and delicacy of evocation, the human condition.
~ Hugh Hood

wonderful- and clear and clean and focused...way beyond "description" - it's what writing should do
~ Gayla Reid, winner of Journey Prize and Ethel Wilson Prize

reverberates in the mind long after the book is closed.
~ NeWest Review

power to involve us now and move us deeply.
~ Vancouver Sun

Dagg's primary concern is the human heart, endlessly beating beneath the skin and the good that flows through the soul. He probes deep into the human centred world of his fiction. There are small epiphanies on every page.
~ Richard Olafson, Ekstasis Editions

Mel Dagg is the author of Same Truck Different Driver, The Women on the Bridge, Four Wheel Drift and Passage on the Cardena. His stories have been featured on CBC's Anthology, CBC's Morningside and anthologies in The Last Map is the Heart, The Best of Grain and More Stories from Western Canada. A story from his first collection was cited in the Yearbook of the American Short Story and anthologized in Denmark.