The Withdrawal Method (signed)

Malla, Pasha

ISBN 10: 1593762380 / ISBN 13: 9781593762384

Published by Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, New York, 2009

About this Item

First printing. Signed by author on title page. Light smudging on edges, else near fine. Pages spotless. Protected in mylar sleeve. Longlisted for the 2009 Giller Prize; Winner of the 2008 Trillium Award; shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize; winner of the 2009 Danuta Gleed Literary Award from the Writers' Union of Canada.

Seller Inventory # 002856

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Withdrawal Method (signed)
• Publisher: Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593762380
• ISBN 13: 9781593762384
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian
  • Fiction - General

About this title

Synopsis

Pasha Malla knows joy in all of its weird, unsettling, and wondrous forms. In their humor, warmth, and rigorous honesty, his stories clearly capture something odd and beautiful: the unmistakable feeling of empathy. From young couples fighting through the emotional trauma of the modern world to children navigating wayward, forbidden paths of a fantasized adulthood, Malla presents characters deeply entrenched in the familiar and hearts that slowly open to reveal the pain and unexpected love that life accumulates.

The Withdrawal Method offers worlds where Niagara Falls has run dry, where people’s skin can be shed in a single piece, and where ancient frustrated chess masters invent machines that unexpectedly alter the course of history. Reminiscent of Lorrie Moore, Haruki Murakami, and George Saunders, these stories are haunting, captivating, and constructed with a poise and precision that reach beyond technical skill.

Malla’s is an assured new voice; his smooth, mature style is punctuated by bursts of wild humor and enlivened by endlessly inventive storytelling. As individual narratives, these stories speak to each side of the protean human psyche, but when taken together they address with full understanding the fragility of our lives.

About the Author

Pasha Malla is the author of five works of poetry and fiction, including the story collection The Withdrawal Method and the novel People Park. His fiction has won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Trillium Book Prize, an Arthur Ellis Award and several National Magazine awards. It has also been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Pasha Malla lives in Hamilton, Ontario.