Grey: Stories For Grown-Ups - Softcover

MacDonald, Judy

9781551521091: Grey: Stories For Grown-Ups

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ISBN 10: 1551521091 ISBN 13: 9781551521091

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003

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Grey is a baby. Grey is a bad date. Grey battles a tornado, flies past giant monkeys, and pauses to watch an old woman with her lists.

Judy MacDonald is a modern-day Jane Bowles, and from her comes this startling collection of stories called Grey.

These stories toy with fact and fiction, autobiography and invention, memory and make believe. Grey proves that a misunderstood color can be far from dull. Read about a girl falling in love with a giraffe. Learn about one young boy’s favorite breastfeeding scenarios. Observe several kinds of relationships. Join the author for an afterlife visit with Stanley Kubrick.

Grey—with delicious and McSweeney-esque observation, sharp dialogue, colorful characters—ages well.

Praise for Grey:

"MacDonald demonstrates her skill with voice, nailing character . . . there is a wealth of intriguing, original ideas in this collection."—Quill & Quire

"MacDonald’s characters are an impressively varied cast . . . she writes with delicacy, humour, and sympathy."—Globe & Mail

Judy MacDonald is a writer and journalist in Toronto. She’s the winner of a Rogers Communications/Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

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About the Author

By trade, Judy is a journalist, writer, editor, television news producer, and has been editor-in -chief of a peppy online magazine called rabble.ca. She has worked in TVland for The National on CBC, as well as for counterSpin and Face-Off on CBC Newsworld. Her work has been published in The Writing Space Journal, Kiss Machine, Geist, Canadian Forum, The Toronto Star, and Compass magazine. She spends as much of her summers as she can in a cold-water shack at Camp Naivelt ("New World"). The camp was founded by the United Jewish People's Order (UJPO), and is located just outside the ever-widening GTA belt. It is perhaps the last of its kind in Canada: it was built as a revolutionary kinderland for children of immigrants sweating away for Toronto's shmata trade.

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"I saw the blue chipped in many places. I saw sad little monkeys hectored by people, and seals slick with that water. I was excited."

"As I walked to the taxis, he shouted behind me, "Forty pounds! You can do it! I know you can!" I looked back at him. His thumbs were both up. He laughed."

"The assistant fixes drinks, and we go into the screening room. Stanley Kubrick arrives just before the lights dim for the movie. We say our hellos, then turn to the opening sequence of a musical comedy he's been working on."

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