Dance the Rocks Ashore

Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. This collection of short stories, Dance the Rocks Ashore, is certainly choice Choyce.

Dance the Rocks Ashore contains substantial new stories including “Dance the Rocks Ashore,” a bittersweet account of an elderly couple’s decline; the hilarious and bizarre “My Father Was a Book Reviewer” “The Third or Fourth Happiest Man in Nova Scotia,” with a peculiar hero reminiscent of Noah; and “The Wreck of the Sister Theresa,” in which spring fever hits like “a handshake in hell.” Favourite stories from previous books include “Losing Ground,” the pivotal chapter in Choyce’s acclaimed 1989 novel The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson, as well as “The Cure,” “Dancing the Night Away,” and the complex and disturbing “Conventional Emotions.”

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Dance the Rocks Ashore, a milestone in Lesley Choyce’s leaps-and-bounds career, attests to almost twenty years of continuous inventiveness and craftsmanship in the art of the short story. It’s a powerful mix: 15 of the best stories from seven earlier books, plus four stories so new they’ve never been published until now.

The title story, “Dance the Rocks Ashore,” is a bittersweet account of an elderly couple’s decline. “The Third or Fourth Happiest Man in Nova Scotia” features a peculiar hero reminiscent of Noah. In “The Wreck of the Sister Theresa,” spring fever hits like “a handshake in hell.” Fanciful or realistic, poetic or comical, literary or homespun, each story shines with Choyce’s unique take on the world.


“As refreshing and unpredictable as those Atlantic waves he’s so fond of riding.”
Macleans

“By turns impish, poignant, and forceful.”
Saturday Night

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Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. This collection of short stories, Dance the Rocks Ashore, is certainly choice Choyce.

Dance the Rocks Ashore contains substantial new stories including “Dance the Rocks Ashore,” a bittersweet account of an elderly couple’s decline; the hilarious and bizarre “My Father Was a Book Reviewer” “The Third or Fourth Happiest Man in Nova Scotia,” with a peculiar hero reminiscent of Noah; and “The Wreck of the Sister Theresa,” in which spring fever hits like “a handshake in hell.” Favourite stories from previous books include “Losing Ground,” the pivotal chapter in Choyce’s acclaimed 1989 novel The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson, as well as “The Cure,” “Dancing the Night Away,” and the complex and disturbing “Conventional Emotions.”

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Dimensions:

223 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 0.6in
333gr

Published:

May 01, 1997

Publisher:

Goose Lane Editions

ISBN:

9780864922182

9780864928252 – EPUB

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Literary

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Language:

eng

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