Montreal Stories ( a book,available)

Some of you might be interested in this book titled Montreal Stories, I saw this a few years back & came across it again today & thought some of you might be interested in,another book with Montreal Stories,.I have not read any of tese ,so I cannot attest to story lines,...or whatever.......Have a look if you like & you be the judge as to persue or not....................

sewn paper Fiction/Short Stories October 2003 192 pages ISBN 0-88984-270-1 $18.95 e-mail the Author An Appreciation Search by Title Search by Author News & Events Alumni To order Order Direct	Montreal Stories: Selected Stories, Volume Three Clark Blaise `I grew up without a home -- what was it, the south, Pittsburgh? -- and by my mid-twenties the anxiety had grown palpable. My most potent memories were southern, but the inherited memories were of my parents' Canada, especially Montreal, where they had met and life had taken an improbable turn for both of them. But by 1966, when I moved my family to Montreal, my parents had divorced, my father was in Mexico, my mother had returned to Winnipeg, I had married a woman from India, and I didn't know where I'd come from or where I was going. Montreal provided the answer. `I re-entered a world I had never made, Montreal, and determined I would become the son I might have been, and would assert authority over an experience I could and should have had, but never did. Confusion remained, but at least I would be the French and English son of befuddlement, the crown prince of Canadian identity.'     - Clark Blaise Here gathered together are the Montreal-set stories which made Clark Blaise famous -- such stories as `A Class of New Canadians', `Eyes', and `I'm Dreaming of Rocket Richard' -- alongside two new and unpublished Montreal stories, `The Belle of Shediac' and `Life Could Be a Dream (sh-boom, sh-boom)'. `One way ... to approach the collection is to soak up the atmosphere of the city that Blaise describes with an almost uncanny acuity. He is a sure master, whether painting landscape -- the mean east-end streets of the 1950s seen as "one big icy puddle of frozen gutter water, devoid of joy, colour, laughter, pleasure, intellect or art" -- or charting social change in the Plateau, the district transformed in the 1980s from "a low, squalid slum, dismal and tubercular" to "Soho de chez nous ... young, upscale, arty and French." '     -- Elaine Kalman Naves, the Montreal Gazette In a recent review of Pittsburgh Stories (Selected Stories 2) in Essays in Canadian Writing, Alexander Macleod considers the series as a whole: `Mingling new pieces written especially for each collection with several older, `classic' stories, the series is an unprecedented event in the history of Canadian literature. Never before has such a large body of work been re-collected in such a way. Never has a writer been so quickly and so completely "re-presented" to us. The strength of the project is its ability to foreground the complexity of Blaise's geographical imagination. [ ... ] The series illustrates, more clearly than ever before, that there is something remarkably original about Blaise's work. Blaise is more than just a local colourist who ferrets out the curious details of "marginal" communities in order to delight cosmopolitan readers. Rather, if we consider the full arc of his work, we see that for nearly fifty years he has been challenging the way that we understand the concept of place in contemporary Canadian and American literature.'     - Alexander Macleod, Essays on Canadian Writing `Clark Blaise is a born storyteller ... a writer to savour.'     - The New York Times Book Review `More than any other writer, Blaise has shown how Canada is linked by geography, immigration and cultural affinity to the wider world ...'     - Jeet Heer, the National Post
		Clark Blaise has taught in Montreal, Toronto, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, as well as at Skidmore College, Columbia University, Iowa, NYU, Sarah Lawrence and Emory. For several years he directed the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Among the most widely travelled of authors, he has taught or lectured in Japan, India, Singapore, Australia, Finland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Holland, Germany, Haiti and Mexico. He lived for years in San Francisco, teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. He is married to the novelist Bharati Mukherjee and currently divides his time between San Francisco and Southampton, Long Island. In 2002, he was elected president of the Society for the Study of the Short Story. In 2003, he was given an award for exceptional achievement by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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