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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

A Nation Plays Chopsticks

by (author) Mark Anthony Jarman

Publisher
Thomas Allen Publishers
Initial publish date
Jun 2012
Category
Short Stories (single author)
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771021005
    Publish Date
    Jun 2012
    List Price
    $1.99

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Description

An outsider plays old-timer hockey in the wilds of New Brunswick.

About the author

Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of 19 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland's Eye. His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca's list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon's list of best hockey fiction.

 

He has been short-listed for the O. Henry Prize and Best American Essays, he won a Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award, won the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize, and has been included in The Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories.

 

He has published recently in Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Vrij Nederland, and reviews for The Globe & Mail. He is a graduate of The Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, has taught at the University of Victoria, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and now teaches at the University of New Brunswick, where he is fiction editor of The Fiddlehead.

 

His newest collection of stories, My White Planet, was published in 2008.

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