Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457
- Publisher
- Anvil Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2016
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781772140439
- Publish Date
- Dec 2016
- List Price
- $12.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781772140132
- Publish Date
- May 2015
- List Price
- $18
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Description
Shortlisted for the City of Hamilton book award
At times comic, tender, dark, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin’s latest fiction collection marvels at the strangeness, charm, and beauty that is contemporary life in the quantum world.
Ranging from short story to postcard fiction, Barwin’s stories are luminous, hilarious, and surprising. A billionaire falls in love with a kitchen appliance, a couple share a pair of legs, a pipeline-size hair is given the Nobel Prize only so that it can be taken away, a father remembers with tenderness the radiant happiness of his teenage child, trapped inside his body. As the Utne Reader said of his last collection, “what makes them so compelling is Barwin’s balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.”
Praise for I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457
“There’s so much to love in I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457. Each story is a portal into a wondrous and mysterious parallel world. Like the great U.S. poet, Russell Edson, Gary Barwin’s work inhabits a transcendent country, one in which surprise, delight, discovery, and, above all, gleeful imagination rule the day.” (M.A.C. Farrant, author of The World Afloat and Darwin Alone in the Universe)
“These stories are as unexpected as they are beautiful. Each one will have you seeing the world in a slightly different way.” (Andrew Kaufman, author of All My Best Friends are Superheroes and Born Weird)
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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