Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
What Can't Be Changed Shouldn't Be Mourned
Short Stories
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2009
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926706115
- Publish Date
- Dec 2009
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
Urban paranoia and rural innocence are the themes of these stories, in which W.D. Valgardson moves effortlessly from examining West Coast city life to fishing the inland sea of Manitoba.
With a quietly understated and often disturbing realism, Valgardson explores domesticity, the trials and tribulations of ritual and routine, the terror of the everyday. It is his attention to the small details, the simple acts, that makes his stories so individual and accomplished.
About the author
W.D. Valgardson was born in Winnipeg in 1939 but spent most of his childhood in Gimli, an Icelandic community on Lake Winnipeg. He is chair of the writing department at the University of Victoria. His novel Gentle Sinners (1980) won the Books in Canada first novel award, and he has written books for children and young adults and four collections of stories. "A Matter of Balance," a winner in the 1980 CBC Canadian Literary Awards, is included in What Can't Be Changed Shouldn't Be Mourned &34;1990".