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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Let the Day Perish

by (author) Christian Petersen

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Sep 1999
Category
Short Stories (single author), General, Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888784001
    Publish Date
    Sep 1999
    List Price
    $16.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554885626
    Publish Date
    Sep 1999
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

Christian Petersen beautifully reins in the confusion and displacement of a diminishing band of men facing the daily spectre of an unforgiving land, men enslaved to the grind of the sawmill, hunkered on bar stools, high in the saddle of a John Deere, or wild behind the wheel speeding down dirt roads to the Fraser. Here are fathers, brothers, lovers in search of forsaken children, bygone loves, and memories long faded in the wash of fast-running streams and firelight.

About the author

Christian Petersen's stories have been anthologized in the 1997 edition of Best Canadian Stories (ed. Douglas Glover) and West By Northwest: B.C. Short Stories. He has published in Event, Prism International, Pottersfield Portfolio, The New Quarterly, Grain, The Fiddlehead and TickleAce. He has a BA in Writing from the University of Victoria and has worked with Jack Hodgins and Steven Heighton. He lives in Williams Lake, BC.

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