Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Altered Statements
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 1995
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551520193
- Publish Date
- Apr 1995
- List Price
- $12.95 USD
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Description
With its deadpan humour and wry sensibilities, Altered Statements is a collection of inventive short fictions that turn the real world on its head. Farrant is an anthropologist of the absurd, cataloguing the habits and traditions of modern society with wit and wonder. Life as you know it will never be the same.
About the author
M.A.C. Farrant has been writing and publishing since the 1980s: Nineteen works of fiction, non-fiction and memoir; two produced plays, countless book reviews for the Vancouver Sun and Toronto Globe & Mail; and over a dozen chapbooks. Along with Pauline Holdstock, she ran the Sidney Reading Series from 1994–2009.Her books have been finalists for many awards, among them the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, the Ethel Wilson fiction prize, two Jessie Richardson theatre awards, The Van City Book Prize, the National Magazine Awards, the ReLit Award, the Gemini Awards for the Bravo short film adaptation of her story, Rob’s Guns & Ammo, and the Victoria Book Prize (three times), the last of which she won in 2014 for her collection of miniature fiction, The World Afloat. The Strange Truth About Us was one of the Globe & Mail’s Best Fiction books of 2012.Her 2021 non-fiction book, One Good Thing, was a BC Bestseller. Jigsaw: A Puzzle in Ninety-Three Pieces, another non-fiction book, was released in 2023. In 2024, Talon Books will issue the expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of her memoir, My Turquoise Years.Her most recent chapbooks are Some of the Puzzles (2021) and The Literary Cow Festival (2024) both from above/ground press in Ottawa. Talonbooks is the publisher of her last ten books.Farrant is well-known for her acerbic wit and laugh-out-loud humour. BC Bookworld has called her “Canada’s most acerbic and intelligent humourist”. Bill Richardson has called her “a master of the Zen-like art of delivering weight in a way that is featherlight” further noting that she’s “the most accomplished and unapologetic miniaturist in Canadian letters.”
Other titles by
My Turquoise Years
A Memoir, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Jigsaw
A Puzzle in Ninety-Three Pieces
One Good Thing
A Living Memoir
The Great Happiness
Stories and Comics
The Days
Forecasts, Warnings, Advice
The World Afloat
The Strange Truth About Us
Down the Road to Eternity
New & Selected Fiction
The Secret Lives of Litterbugs
and Other (True) Stories
