The Strange Truth About Us ebook
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2011
- Category
- Literary
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780889227347
- Publish Date
- Oct 2011
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
“Anthropologist of the absurd” and “brave iconoclast,” M.A.C. Farrant positively bristles in this three-part novel-length work of prose fragments, snippets, questions, speculations, and meditations, by turns philosophical, dark, comedic, and lyrical in its attempts to imagine a multitude of possible futures for our accelerated age. It offers her readers nothing less than The Strange Truth About Us.
M.A.C. Farrant is the acclaimed author of nine previous collections of satirical and humourous short fiction, and two works of non-fiction. Her work is infused with acerbic wit and innovation, and her surrealistic visions of everyday life are startlingly precise.
About the author
Born in Sydney, Australia and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, M.A.C. Farrant is the acclaimed author of nine previous collections of satirical and humourous short fiction, and two works of non-fiction. Her writing has been widely anthologized in North America and has been dramatized for television; Farrant is also a frequent contributor to leading magazines such as Adbusters and Geist. Her 2004 memoir, My Turquoise Years, is being adapted into a stage play in conjunction with the Arts Club Theatre of Vancouver; production is slated for the 2011/12 season.
Farrant has taught fiction workshops in Canada and Australia. She was a visiting writer-in-residence at Macquarie University in Sydney. A full-time writer currently residing in North Saanich, B.C., she has also taught part-time at the creative writing department in the University of Victoria and reviews books for the Vancouver Sun and the Globe & Mail.
Farrant’s work is infused with acerbic wit and iconoclastic innovation. As the Globe & Mail has noted, “Farrant is better at startling us with unnerving, often misanthropic visions of everyday life than perhaps any other Canadian writer”.
BC Bookworld has called her “Canada’s most acerbic and intelligent humourist.”
Other titles by M.A.C. Farrant
One Good Thing
A Living Memoir
The Great Happiness
Stories and Comics
The Days
Forecasts, Warnings, Advice
The World Afloat
The Strange Truth About Us
Down the Road to Eternity
New & Selected Fiction
Down the Road to Eternity ebook
The Secret Lives of Litterbugs
and Other (True) Stories
The Breakdown So Far
