Kingdom of Heaven
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1996
- Category
- Literary, Short Stories (single author)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896860060
- Publish Date
- Sep 1996
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
The Kingdom of Heaven is an improvisation on the absurdly logical rituals shared by everyone in the post-industrial age. Like the keys of a piano each story is linked, in cinematic brevity, to create unseen music played by an invisible hand.
About the author
John Gould is the author of The End of Me – a collection of 56 sudden stories about mortality – and of two previous collections in the same form, including Kilter, a finalist for the Giller prize. He’s also written a novel, Seven Good Reasons Not To Be Good, and published fiction in periodicals across Canada and abroad. As an arts administrator he created and coordinated writing programs for the BC Festival of the Arts and the Victoria School of Writing, and was a member of the collective that founded the Victoria Writers Festival. A freelance editor and nonfiction writer, he served on the editorial board of the Malahat Review, and taught creative writing at the University of Victoria. He lives on unceded Lekwungen territory in Victoria, BC. Website: johngould.ca.