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Big Red Baby

by (author) Gary Barwin

Publisher
The Mercury Press
Initial publish date
Sep 1999
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551280646
    Publish Date
    Sep 1999
    List Price
    $14.50

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In these short fictions, Gary Barwin works his surreal magic again: a businessman's heart phones him from the twentieth floor; a man sleeps with the tooth fairy; someone orders an inflatable T.S. Eliot from an infomercial. This is Barwin at his best? funny, elegant, and scintillating: a chicken suit for the soul.

About the author

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and performer. He is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry and fiction including the poetry collections frogments from the frag pool: haiku after basho (written with derek beaulieu) and Raising Eyebrows and Outside the Hat (Coach House Books) and the fiction collections Doctor Weep and other strange teeth, Big Red Baby (The Mercury Press), and Cruelty to Fabulous Animals (Moonstone Press). He is the author of The Mud Game, a novel written with Stuart Ross (The Mercury Press). Barwin is also the author of several books for children including Seeing Stars, a young adult novel (Stoddart Kids) nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award and the CLA YA Book of the Year, and Killer Poodle Made Me Island King (Fox Meadow), co-winner of the Muskoka Novel Marathon 2003. Barwin received a PhD in Music Composition and currently teaches music at Hillfield-Strathallan College and creative writing at McMaster University. Barwin lives in Hamilton, where he has cultivated vague but colourful illusions about his writing. Please don’t tell him.

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