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The dark and other love stories

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  • Author: Willis, Deborah
    Date:
    Issued
    2017
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    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug dealer’s girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to turn her into a bird. Two teenaged girls test their relationship by breaking into suburban houses. A wife finds a gaping hole in the floor of the home she shares with her husband, a hole that only she can see. Full of longing and strange humor, these subtle, complex stories—about a man and his pet crow, an alcoholic and his AA sponsor, a mute migrant and a newspaper reporter—show how love ties us to each other and to the world.

    Contents:
    • The dark
    • Girlfriend on Mars
    • The passage bird
    • Hard currency
    • Last one to leave
    • I am Optimus Prime
    • Welcome to paradise
    • Todd
    • Flight
    • The ark
    • Steve and Lauren: three love stories.
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Ont., Hamish Hamilton
    Language(s): English
    Collection(s)/Series: Scotiabank Giller Prize 2017