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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Capital Tales

by (author) Brian Fawcett

Publisher
Talonbooks
Initial publish date
Jan 1984
Category
Short Stories (single author), Capitalism, Politics
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889222212
    Publish Date
    Jan 1984
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

The survivors and victims inhabiting the pages of Capital Tales dash forever the romantic myth that our peerless captains of industry are guiding us through the mists of progress to a shining land of prosperity. Tough, uncompromising portraits of people discovering the illusions they live by, the stories culminate in a confrontation between the narrator and a nineteenth-century British philosopher—a meeting of minds which leaves no meaning of the word “capital” unexamined.

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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Editorial Reviews

"Fawcett’s work expands into a well-earned and genuine visionary criticism of the deadly contradictions within society
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