Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
It Is an Honest Ghost
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2016
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552453339
- Publish Date
- May 2016
- List Price
- $18.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770564510
- Publish Date
- Mar 2016
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
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.
