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The Reasonable Ogre

Tales for the Sick and Well

by (author) Mike Barnes

illustrated by Segbingway

Publisher
Biblioasis
Initial publish date
May 2012
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781926845449
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

The Reasonable Ogre, by author and essayist Mike Barnes, is a collection of original adult fables about family, death, relationships, life, madness O and ogres. (And pirates, sprites, kings, and huntsmen.) By turns dark and uplifting, these tales explore real-life, negotiated magic - and prove that Mike Barnes is a wizard of the human heart.

About the authors

Mike Barnes is the author of the novels Catalogue Raisonn? and The Syllabus, the short fiction collections Aquarium -- winner of the 1999 Danuta Gleed Award -- and Contrary Angel, and two poetry collections, Calm Jazz Sea, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial award, and a thaw foretold. His stories have appeared twice in Best Canadian Stories, three times in The Journey Prize Anthology, and won the Silver Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards. He was the subject of a feature issue of The New Quarterly (Summer 2001) which included an interview and three new stories. In 2008 he released his first non-fiction title, The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis. Formerly a piano teacher, fishing guide, janitor, steelworker, dishwasher, clock salesman, security guard, English teacher, in recent years he has been working as a private tutor. He lives in Toronto.

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