19 Knives: Stories

by Mark Anthony Jarman

Book Overview

With characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive and wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. Jarman doesn't just write about people. He puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887846629
• ISBN13: 9780887846625
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"