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Fiction Literary

Dancing Nightly in the Tavern

by (author) Mark Anthony Jarman

Publisher
Brindle & Glass Publishing
Initial publish date
Feb 2007
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897142226
    Publish Date
    Feb 2007
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926972053
    Publish Date
    Feb 2011
    List Price
    $4.99

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Description

Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, Mark Anthony Jarman's impressive debut collection of nine short stories, presents characters assembled from the depths of the local bars, under the influence, on the run, out of work. They are infused with a dark smoke drawn from the raw side of life—stained, imperfect, energetic and earthy—and fueled by a desire to endure. With language that is sharp, fluid and uniquely lyrical, Jarman explores the circumstances of drifting, destinations unknown. Intense. Tempestuous. A seductive read.

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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Editorial Reviews

This first collection of stories by Jarman adds an important new voice to Canadian literature. No one writes quite like this: his punchy, hard-edged style penetrates to the heart of flakey nights and mornings in the towns of the West. —Globe and Mail