A Token of My Affliction

Platana, Janette

ISBN 10: 1926639758 / ISBN 13: 9781926639758

Published by Tightrope Books, Inc., 2014

About this Item

Some wear; remainder marks to bottome edge.

Seller Inventory # 23093012

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Token of My Affliction
• Publisher: Tightrope Books, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1926639758
• ISBN 13: 9781926639758
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Novels

About this title

Synopsis

Nominee:
2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize
2016 English Language Trilium Book Award, Finalist

These cheerfully disturbing, gleefully outraged, and chillingly beautiful stories break open the lives of apparently ordinary people who struggle and sometimes succeed in living without compromise, refusing to sacrifice the world they sense to the world they see, and where things can be true without ever being real. The range of this accomplished and poetic voice may cause vertigo, owing, as it does, as much to the Clash to Stephen King, to Caitlin Moran as to Flannery O'Connor, and something to David Sedaris. A Token of My Affliction will make you laugh while breaking your heart wide open.

About the Author

Janette Platana was born and raised in Saskatchewan and now lives in Peterborough, Ontario, where she writes, plays music, and makes short films.