Playing to Win
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2012
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550716214
- Publish Date
- Oct 2012
- List Price
- $20.00
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Description
In this collection of short stories, Toronto's F.G. Paci brings the art of gamesmanship to a new level. Never has sport as a metaphor for life's battles been more evident or more subtly employed to bring out the ecstacy and pain of playing to win.
About the author
F.G. Paci was born in Italy and grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He was the Elia Chair writer-in-residence at York University and has an honorary degree from Laurentian University. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, among them: The Italians, Oberon Press, 1978. (Signet Ed. 1980. French trans. La Famille Gaetano, Guernica, 1990); Black Madonna, Oberon, 1982; The Father, Oberon, 1984; Black Blood, Oberon, 1991; Icelands, Oberon, 1999. Italian Shoes, Guernica, 2002 (Italian Trans. Scarpe Italiane, Iannone, Italy, 2008); Hard Edge, Guernica, 2005; Peace Tower, Guernica, 2009; and The Son, Oberon, 2011. A book of essays on his work (F.G. Paci: Essays on His Work, ed. J. Pivato, Guernica) came out in 2003. He lives in Toronto with his wife and has one son.
