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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

It Is an Honest Ghost

by (author) John Goldbach

Publisher
Coach House Books
Initial publish date
Mar 2016
Category
Short Stories (single author), Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552453339
    Publish Date
    May 2016
    List Price
    $18.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770564510
    Publish Date
    Mar 2016
    List Price
    $12.95

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From Kenya to Quebec, these wry and unconventional stories explore the different ways we’re haunted ...

Teenagers philosophize on the nature of ontology while fearing there's a ghost in the old mill they're stuck in; a man encounters an old friend in the unlikeliest of places; nineteenth-century inventor Sigismund Mohr is vividly brought back from obscurity; and two journalists travel to Kenya for a conference, where one of them has a paranoid breakdown.

It Is an Honest Ghost is a funny and often eerie collection that explores what lies beyond mortality -- if anything, that is.

'A thrilling collection: hot-headed, existential, crystalline. Goldbach’s novella Hic et Ubique illuminates the nightmare of being a man in this world -- the twisted, spiritual conversion of buddy into warrior. This book is cadenced and visionary.'
-- Tamara Faith Berger

'Searching and restless, a new Goldbach story is a thing to celebrate. A whole collection of them? A Mardi Gras of mischievous goodness. This fiction slays hearts in the most wondrous of ways.'
-- Jeff Parker

About the author

John Goldbach is the author of The Devil and the Detective, a novel, and Selected Blackouts, a story collection.

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