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Megan Gail Coles Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
- Publication Name
- Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
- Title
- Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
- EAN
- 9781487001711
- ISBN
- 9781487001711
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 05/11/2020
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Weight
- 16.2 Oz
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CA
- Genre
- Fiction
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Topic
- General, Literary
- Number of Pages
- 440 Pages
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#1 National Bestseller Finalist, CBC Canada Reads Finalist, Scotiabank Giller Prize By turns savage, biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, Megan Gail Coles's debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters, exposing class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine's Day in the dead of a winter storm. Valentine's Day, the longest day of the year. A fierce blizzard is threatening to tear a strip off the city, while inside The Hazel restaurant a storm system of sex, betrayal, addiction, and hurt is breaking overhead. Iris, a young hostess, is forced to pull a double despite resolving to avoid the charming chef and his wealthy restaurateur wife. Just tables over, Damian, a hungover and self-loathing server, is trying to navigate a potential punch-up with a pair of lit customers who remain oblivious to the rising temperature in the dining room. Meanwhile Olive, a young woman far from her northern home, watches it all unfurl from the fast and frozen street. Through rolling blackouts, we glimpse the truth behind the shroud of scathing lies and unrelenting abuse, and discover that resilience proves most enduring in the dead of this winter's tale.
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Publisher
House of Anansi Press
ISBN-10
1487001711
ISBN-13
9781487001711
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038382569
Product Key Features
Book Title
Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
440 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Pr9199.4.C64625s63
Reviews
Beautifully fluid writing pulls the reader right in and keeps them gliding along. Fans of Rene Denfeld, Alice Sebold, and Eowyn Ivey will want to check this book out., What recommends this novel most is the way its author stays with her characters' hurt, how she holds it without reverence but understands how those wounds can motivate like nothing else . . . Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club is a dark, taut, funny novel that feels for its characters' pain while remaining caustic toward the enablers and the kinds of violence that polite society allows., PRAISE FOR MEG COLES AND EATING HABITS OF THE CHRONICALLY LONESOME: "A potent fiction debut . . . These stories are blunt and direct." -- Quill & Quire "Characters are the crux of this breed of lively, unrestrained short fiction, and the cast in this book are endearing, gut-busting, and memorably real." -- The Overcast "Pitch perfect. Appropriately restrained and conversational. Coles is not your average newbie. She's a serious talent who deserves to be mentioned alongside other young Newfoundland writers like Joel Thomas Hynes and Sara Tilley." -- Atlantic Books Today "The stories are often very short, even only four pages, but in each she compresses situation (relationship fracture and reknit), character (distilled to their absolute wants), and setting (St. John's, Montreal, or Korea) like a literary Oreo cookie. It's all about the crux, the crisis, propelled from the first sentence . . . crisp, lyric prose." -- The Telegram, Although Small Game Hunting is often tragic and heartbreaking, its finale offers a glimmer of hope that we are invited to be brave and wait for. The hope that sees women, both tattered and changed by the work of male violence and power, not at a loss for agency or warmth. In the end, Coles's powerful novel is a tale of resilience., The lure of Coles's often glorious use of language and the importance of reading books that do exactly what Small Game Hunting does -- force the reader to face truths that have been hidden and swept away for far too long, to be made uncomfortable and prompted to think rather than be simply entertained -- are reason enough to give this up-and-coming author's new work serious consideration., A profound read, offering up perfectly crafted sentences in the thoughts of the motley cast of characters., Early in Small Game Hunting, a Nigerian immigrant asks the heroine about her true origins: 'You don't look all white,' he says. In other words, this is not your traditional Newfoundland novel of social isolation. Instead, Megan Gail Coles portrays the harsh existence of the islanders as emblematic of the human condition itself. The characters' lives unfold around a fine restaurant. They are physically and emotionally crippled by their society's devastating inequalities, the women psychologically maimed by repeated sexual assault. Coles's narrator storms against the status quo in a kinetic novel that dazzles, challenges, and exhilarates.
Copyright Date
2019
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