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From an emerging master of short fiction and one of Canada's most distinctive voices, a collection of stories as heartbreaking as those of Lorrie Moore and as hilariously off-kilter as something out of McSweeney's.
In Better Living through Plastic Explosives, Zsuzsi Gartner delivers a powerful second dose of the lacerating satire that marked her acclaimed debut, All the Anxious Girls on Earth, but with even greater depth and darker humour. Whether she casts her eye on evolution and modern manhood when an upscale cul-de-sac is thrown into chaos after a redneck moves into the neighbourhood, international adoption, war photography, real estate, the movie industry, motivational speakers, or terrorism, Gartner filets the righteous and the ridiculous with dexterity in equal, glorious measure. These stories ruthlessly expose our most secret desires, and allow us to snort with laughter at the grotesque world we'd live in if we all got what we wanted.
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2012: Shortlisted for Canada’s prestigious Giller Prize, Gartner’s wide-ranging and unrestrained collection--the short story “at its savage best,” as the Giller jury reported--manages a neat trick: It makes the ordinary seem absurd and the extraordinary seem everyday normal. People and events are turned upside down and inside out, whether it’s the movie industry, art, terrorism, or manhood. If there’s a theme running through these 10 witty, graceful, funny, and sometimes surreal stories, it’s a big fat poke at convention. Like an avant garde post-bebop jazz musician, Gartner seems to relish the unconventional, and her style of storytelling veers from ridiculous to eloquent to heartbreaking and back. --Neal Thompson
About the Author
ZSUZSI GARTNER is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling story collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth and the editor of Darwin's Bastard's: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow. She is the winner of a 2007 National Magazine Award for Fiction and the recipient of numerous awards for her magazine journalism. Her second collection of short stories, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, was shortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She lives in Vancouver.
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0670065188
- ISBN 13 9780670065189
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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