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Publisher:Cormorant Books, 2018Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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- Author: Unwin, PeterDate:Copyrighted2013Summary:
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.
Genre:Original Publisher: Markham, Ont., Cormorant BooksLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 9781770862449