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Prospects Unknown

by (author) Jamie Dopp

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Sep 2000
Category
General, Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896860718
    Publish Date
    Sep 2000
    List Price
    $21.95

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Description

The victims are the Soledads, a family of refugees from a South American country. Who had reason to kill them? Who in this town didn’t? Prospects Unknown is a literary thriller that offers a compelling detective story alongside a witty meditation on the relationship between fiction and reality.

About the author

Jamie Dopp is associate professor of Canadian literature at the University of Victoria, where he has taught a course in hockey and literature for a number of years. His poetry, fiction, reviews, and scholarly articles have appeared in many journals. He has published two collections of poetry and a novel and in 2009, he co-edited a collection of essays with Richard Harrison called Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey.

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