Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Dead Voices
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Initial publish date
- May 2019
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771833189
- Publish Date
- May 2019
- List Price
- $25.00
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Description
Dead Voices is a collection of stories that are both seriously realistic and comically whimsical. They have everything from superheroes who get sick on words, to the appearance of dead playwrights, to the visit of saints and sinners from the past, to a hot stove discussion on hockey and love. They're about the modern mind-set and its technological marvels and the older attention to character and virtue.
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.
Excerpt: Dead Voices (by (author) F.G. PACI)
In Hot Stove they'd forget they were teachers, fathers, husbands, compromisers, bullshit artists, or whatever else they normally functioned as, and became soldiers, predators, hunters, warriors - a bunch of old-timers who had seen their glory years long ago and still laced up the skates for the love of the game. Hot Stove was their way of keeping the embers warm after the season, keeping the dressing room spirit alive, shooting the shit - as real shit instead of pious shit - and swapping hockey lore, and cutting their ties to the world of fakery and compromise.
