Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Cambodia
A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1986
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889222373
- Publish Date
- Jan 1986
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
In this disturbing collection of investigative fictions, Brian Fawcett asserts that the informational white noise of the Global Village is creating a cultural and intellectual breakdown that will eventually lead to the disappearance of local and individual identity. He argues that under the glitzy surfaces of television and the information “revolution” lie the same intentions that ran amok in Khmer Rouge Cambodia: the extermination of memory and imagination.
About the author
Brian Fawcett is the author of more than twenty books, including Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow, The Secret Journals of Alexander Mackenzie, and VirtualClearcut: Or, TheWay Things Are In My Home Town. He is a past editor of Books in Canada, a former columnist for the Globe and Mail, has written articles and reviews for most of Canada’s major newspapers and magazines, and is a founding editor of the internationallyfollowed Internet news service,
www.dooneyscafe.com. Fawcett was born and raised in Prince George, B.C. and now lives in Toronto.
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Virtual Clearcut
Or, The Way Things Are in My Hometown
Last of the Lumbermen
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The Last of the Lumbermen
Human Happiness
Robin Blaser
Local Matters
A Defence of Dooney's Cafe and Other Non-Globalized Places, People and Ideas
Unusual Circumstances, Interesting Times
The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
