Hell & Other Novels

By (author): Beverley Daurio

Behind our everyday, apparently rational preoccupations lie the traces of a longing for sanctity and redemption. In these haunting, often chilling short stories, Beverley Daurio maps the sub-atomic space of contemporary alienation: a woman celebrates her divorce; a photographer trying to stay off drugs visits a monastery; an historian avoids facing her son’s disappearance and discovers that miracles are still possible.

AUTHOR

Beverley Daurio

Beverley Daurio is a writer and editor of fiction, prose and poetry. She previously published works include Internal Document, His Dogs, Justice, and If Summer Had a Knife, as well as numerous appearances in many literary magazines. She is currently the Publisher and Acting Editor of Paragraph: the Canadian Fiction Review and is the Editor-in-Chief of The Mercury Press. Her short story collection, Hell & Other Novels (1990), previously published by Coach House Press, is now available from Talonbooks.

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“Wonderfully evocative images…well worth reading.”
Quill & Quire


“Poetic in their brevity and chilling in their intensity.”
Aritha van Herk


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Behind our everyday, apparently rational preoccupations lie the traces of a longing for sanctity and redemption. In these haunting, often chilling short stories, Beverley Daurio maps the sub-atomic space of contemporary alienation: a woman celebrates her divorce; a photographer trying to stay off drugs visits a monastery; an historian avoids facing her son’s disappearance and discovers that miracles are still possible.

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Dimensions:

160 Pages
8.5in * 216mm * 5.5in * 140mm * 0.5in13mm
220gr
7.875oz

Published:

January 01, 1990

City of Publication:

Vancouver

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Talonbooks

ISBN:

9780889104211

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Short Stories

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Language:

eng

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