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Middle-Aged Boys & Girls
We all know adults who are stranded in the amber of adolescence. Growing older but not necessarily growing up is the central theme of Middle-Aged Boys & Girls, featuring characters who, to varying degrees, are stuck in adolescent roles of rebel, outcast, enfant terrible and cool kid. All are linked by losses–of looks, of status, of job security, of health, of confidence–which forces them to life’s inevitable turning point. Given that we are living in an age where fifty is the new forty, and forty is the new thirty, and twenty is the new god-knows-what, these stories, with their sometimes painful, sometimes funny and always unflinching truths, resonate.
The women in Diane Bracuk’s probing fiction are crossing what Joseph Conrad called “the shadow line”—the threshold between youth and the middle age—and it is how they extract meaning from the crossing that makes this story collection so intriguing. A worthy read.
Lurid and suspenseful in a way you can’t quite put your finger on till the end, Middle-Aged Boys & Girls marks a surprising and entertaining debut.
Bracuk is a wonderful writer and her stories take readers on unexpected journeys. They resonate and are affecting. Many of the stories in Middle-Aged Boys & Girls are also award winners!
Bracuk’s narrative skill and linguistic control make for consistently well-crafted fiction.
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Dimensions:
222 Pages
8in * 5in * 0.6in
240gr
Published:
March 01, 2016
City of Publication:
Hamilton
Country of Publication:
CA
Publisher:
ISBN:
9781771830690
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Language:
eng
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