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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Hello, Sweetheart

by (author) Elaine McCluskey

Publisher
Great Plains Publications
Initial publish date
Apr 2015
Category
Short Stories (single author)
Recommended Age
16 to 18
Recommended Grade
11 to 12
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781927855003
    Publish Date
    Apr 2015
    List Price
    $9.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781926531991
    Publish Date
    Sep 2014
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Hello, Sweetheart is darkly humorous, gritty, and touching. McCluskey's unassuming Canadian towns are populated by dreamers and disappointment, killers and collaborators, VLT junkies, sinister drug-testers, and a dangerous stay-at-home dad named Mugsy. It exposes the frailties of people—marginalized people, forgotten people, and grieving people—but never loses sight of their humanity. Edgy and at times disturbing, this collection of short stories will take you places you don't expect to go.

About the author

Elaine McCluskey grew up in a boxing household. She is a former news editor and bureau chief of the Canadian Press in Halifax and has also worked as a reporter at CBC-TV and the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. Her debut short story collection, The Watermelon Social, was shortlisted for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize and published in the Fiddlehead, the Antigonish Review, the Dalhousie Review, the Gaspereau Review and Room of One's Own.

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