Collapsible

Conley, Tim

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9781554201518: Collapsible
ISBN 10: 1554201519 ISBN 13: 9781554201518
Publisher: New Star Books, 2019

Synopsis

Fiction. Short Stories. The short story form is unambiguously un-dead in this new album of thirty fictions from Tim Conley, coming at the reader in a variety of shapes and guises running the gamut from elliptical micro-fictions to tales of the inexplicable.

Steeped in Beckett, Borges and Nabokov, Conley's multiple universes allow for werewolves that excite ridicule not fear, and where birthdays are an occasion for forgetting not remembering. Here, the world greets a new colouring book with the same seriousness as it might some newly discovered gospel, and struggles to embrace fictional celebrities with the same ardour it reserves for real ones. And why not a variant of origami that is used on the human form?

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About the Author

Tim Conley is the author of several books of fiction, poetry, and criticism, including DANCE MOVES OF THE NEAR FUTURE (New Star Books, 2015), COLLAPSIBLE (New Star Books, 2019), and Unless Acted Upon (Mansfield Press, 2019). He teaches modernist and contemporary literature at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.

From the Back Cover

"Conley's stories are never so determined as to suggest a rigid or incontestable meaning; the title of the collection can refer to the form and function of the short story itself, which the author delights in stretching, reducing, altering, or contorting in pursuit of idiosyncratic modes of expression." — Steven W. Beattie, Quill & Quire

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Publisher
New Star Books
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1554201519
ISBN 13 
9781554201518
Edition number
1
Number of pages
185
Rating
  • 3.80 out of 5 stars
    15 ratings by Goodreads