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Life without death : stories

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  • Publisher:
    Cormorant Books, 2018
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Unwin, Peter
    Date:
    Copyrighted
    2013
    Summary:

    In Life Without Death, the latest short story collection from Peter Unwin, ordinary men and women search for meaning in lives subject to change, chance, coincidence, and catastrophe. A man recalls a lifetime of love and loss while copying contacts out of his old little black book. A woman is left her dying father's secret stash of pornography, and is entrusted with the unenviable task of disposing of it. A new father unexpectedly discovers a way of connecting to his autistic son. For one day, guests to a wedding set aside their various past misdeeds in order to celebrate a young couple's union. A teenager newly introduced to a life of petty crime suddenly finds himself in way over his head. A man's former acquaintance resurfaces decades later as the subject of a haunting art film. Unwin's characters live full, complex lives within each story. Though they may not find the simple answers they seek, if such answers even exist, they-and readers-gain something farmore valuable on their journeys: perspective.

    Contents:
    • Circumstances surrounding my birth
    • Back then
    • Getaway man
    • Halloween
    • What it was
    • Black book
    • Story I would write
    • Out West
    • People behind the hedge
    • Innocent
    • Nuptial
    • Quintet
    • Raft
    • Haw eaters
    • Whistling down the lights
    • I'm not very good at it
    • Stash
    • Life without death
    • World in the evening
    • Fight.
    Original Publisher: Markham, Ont., Cormorant Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781770862449