[A Novel by Ken Sparling]
- Publisher
- Pedlar Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2003
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780973214017
- Publish Date
- Mar 2003
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
Ken Sparling's nameless new novel is a window, an open door, a means of escape. The novel's narrator---Ken---works at a library. He's drowning in memos, directives, instructions. Words at their most banal. At home, he and his wife have almost nothing to say. Their few words are terse, resentful, wounded. || Ken begins to write a novel, an alternative life for himself and his wife. He gives his wife a lover, a gas man who speaks no English. He gives himself a new language to speak, a poetic language, surreal and hallucinatory, where turkeys are orange and wind knows where it's going.
About the authors
Ken Sparling is the author of six novels: Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, commissioned by Gordon Lish; Hush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt, handmade using discarded library Books and a sewing machine; a novel with no title; For Those Whom God Has Blessed with Fingers; Book, which was shortlisted for The Trillium Award; and Intention | Implication | Wind. He lives in Toronto, where he works in a marketing role with the city's public library system.
Derek McCormack, author of the critically acclaimed Haunted Hillbilly, is the author of two short story collections set in his hometown of Peterborough, Ontario: Dark Rides and Wish Book: A Catalogue of Stories. He is co-author of Wild Mouse, which was nominated for the 1999 Toronto Book Award. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and anthologies in Canada and the U.S.A. His non-fiction has appeared in the National Post, Saturday Night, Elm Street, and Blood & Aphorisms. In 2001, he received an Honourable Mention at the National Magazine Awards for "Boo! A Halloween ABC," which appeared in Saturday Night. Stargaze, a short movie based on his story of the same name, has appeared at numerous Canadian and international film festivals. Derek McCormack lives in Toronto.
Other titles by Ken Sparling
Other titles by Derek Mccormack
Castle Faggot
The Well-Dressed Wound
The Show that Smells
Christmas Days /hc
From Fake Snow to Santalands, The Things That Make Christmas Christmas
Christmas Days
From Fake Snow to Santalands, The Things That Make Christmas Christmas
For Those Whom God Has Blessed With Fingers
Wish Book
A Catalogue of Stories
Dark Rides
The Haunted Hillbilly
