M a C Farrant
The World Afloat
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Seventy-five irreverent and humorous stories serve as soothing antidotes for a fast-paced and at times alienating modern world.
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Seventy-five irreverent and humorous stories serve as soothing antidotes for a fast-paced and at times alienating modern world.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Talonbooks
- Seitenzahl: 112
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 213mm x 124mm x 8mm
- Gewicht: 136g
- ISBN-13: 9780889228382
- ISBN-10: 0889228388
- Artikelnr.: 39531137
- Verlag: Talonbooks
- Seitenzahl: 112
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 213mm x 124mm x 8mm
- Gewicht: 136g
- ISBN-13: 9780889228382
- ISBN-10: 0889228388
- Artikelnr.: 39531137
M.A.C. Farrant is the author of over twenty works of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, chapbooks, two plays, and over one hundred book reviews and essays for the Vancouver Sun and the Globe & Mail. Her memoir, My Turquoise Years, which she adapted for the stage, premiered in 2013 at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver. Her novel, The Strange Truth About Us - A Novel of Absence, (Talonbooks, 2011) was cited as a Best Fiction Book of 2012 by the Globe and Mail. The World Afloat (Talonbooks, 2014), the first in a trilogy of collections of miniature fiction and prose poems, won the Victoria Book Prize. One Good Thing-A Living Memoir, published by Talonbooks in 2021, was a BC Bestseller. Most recently from Talonbooks: Jigsaw-A Puzzle in Ninety-Three Pieces, (2023); forthcoming: My Turquoise Years, 20th Anniversary Edition (2024). Archived material is in the "Special Collections Branch" at the University of Victoria. She lives on Vancouver Island.
Contents
1.
- Young Man With Leaflets
- Tanya's Muffins
- How the Summer Wash Deserts Us
- The Day is Old Enough to have Complications
- A True Story about Normal Circumstances Including Some Insane Footage
- Everyone's Life Was a Labyrinth
- A Frothy Moment Keeps the World Afloat
- The State
- A Noise in the World
- When the Last Straw is a Tomato
- We Appreciate Him Now
- His Trouble
- Couple Sucks Same Candy
- Juliet Nearly Succumbs
- Bit Part/Twin Peaks
- Nothing Could be More Like Life Than What We Were Watching
- He Could be Droll
- Autumn Idyll
- Steak Soup
- The Freshest Look is an Odd Shape
- Orange as a Ball
- Some of the Many Reasons
- The Times Felt Like Doctoring
- Feathers, Dirt, Bugs
- The Moment Contracts
11
- Otherwise a Blank Canvas
- No Kidding!
- Espresso
- Geese Like Carpet Bombers
- Wanting Cake
- White Sheet over Old Idea
- How Wondering is Essential
- How the Lighthouse Meant Something
- How Some Re-Write Their Epic Poems
- How Time Expands
- How She Rations Herself
- How Mixture Causes Relationships
- How I Was Wearing the Hood That Day
- White Suit/Far Off Reality
- Meetings that Mattered
- Say the Words
- Country Life
- Canary
- Pause and Repeat
- Jackie's Little Town
- Dave like a Bellhop in a Maroon Suit Pointing the Way
- Out of Order
- In Vain
- Nobody's Going to Sleep Tonight
- Today's Forecast
111
- Chickens and Us
- Last Amphibian Flees Calgary Airport
- Smooth
- Along the Way
- Our Spiritual Lives
- Once Again
- The Favoured Form
- Back Then
- Nearly There
- Story Interruptus
- An Outpouring of Generous Abandonment
- Saga
- Local Gossip
- Her Advice
- An Interesting Woman
- Private Life
- Bulletin
- Over
- Things Blowing Over
- The Smart Jam is in Finance
- The Logic of a Dream
- The Prayer we Prefer
- The Americans Will Not Save You for Christmas
- The Rockets of It
- The Next Story
1.
- Young Man With Leaflets
- Tanya's Muffins
- How the Summer Wash Deserts Us
- The Day is Old Enough to have Complications
- A True Story about Normal Circumstances Including Some Insane Footage
- Everyone's Life Was a Labyrinth
- A Frothy Moment Keeps the World Afloat
- The State
- A Noise in the World
- When the Last Straw is a Tomato
- We Appreciate Him Now
- His Trouble
- Couple Sucks Same Candy
- Juliet Nearly Succumbs
- Bit Part/Twin Peaks
- Nothing Could be More Like Life Than What We Were Watching
- He Could be Droll
- Autumn Idyll
- Steak Soup
- The Freshest Look is an Odd Shape
- Orange as a Ball
- Some of the Many Reasons
- The Times Felt Like Doctoring
- Feathers, Dirt, Bugs
- The Moment Contracts
11
- Otherwise a Blank Canvas
- No Kidding!
- Espresso
- Geese Like Carpet Bombers
- Wanting Cake
- White Sheet over Old Idea
- How Wondering is Essential
- How the Lighthouse Meant Something
- How Some Re-Write Their Epic Poems
- How Time Expands
- How She Rations Herself
- How Mixture Causes Relationships
- How I Was Wearing the Hood That Day
- White Suit/Far Off Reality
- Meetings that Mattered
- Say the Words
- Country Life
- Canary
- Pause and Repeat
- Jackie's Little Town
- Dave like a Bellhop in a Maroon Suit Pointing the Way
- Out of Order
- In Vain
- Nobody's Going to Sleep Tonight
- Today's Forecast
111
- Chickens and Us
- Last Amphibian Flees Calgary Airport
- Smooth
- Along the Way
- Our Spiritual Lives
- Once Again
- The Favoured Form
- Back Then
- Nearly There
- Story Interruptus
- An Outpouring of Generous Abandonment
- Saga
- Local Gossip
- Her Advice
- An Interesting Woman
- Private Life
- Bulletin
- Over
- Things Blowing Over
- The Smart Jam is in Finance
- The Logic of a Dream
- The Prayer we Prefer
- The Americans Will Not Save You for Christmas
- The Rockets of It
- The Next Story
Contents
1.
- Young Man With Leaflets
- Tanya's Muffins
- How the Summer Wash Deserts Us
- The Day is Old Enough to have Complications
- A True Story about Normal Circumstances Including Some Insane Footage
- Everyone's Life Was a Labyrinth
- A Frothy Moment Keeps the World Afloat
- The State
- A Noise in the World
- When the Last Straw is a Tomato
- We Appreciate Him Now
- His Trouble
- Couple Sucks Same Candy
- Juliet Nearly Succumbs
- Bit Part/Twin Peaks
- Nothing Could be More Like Life Than What We Were Watching
- He Could be Droll
- Autumn Idyll
- Steak Soup
- The Freshest Look is an Odd Shape
- Orange as a Ball
- Some of the Many Reasons
- The Times Felt Like Doctoring
- Feathers, Dirt, Bugs
- The Moment Contracts
11
- Otherwise a Blank Canvas
- No Kidding!
- Espresso
- Geese Like Carpet Bombers
- Wanting Cake
- White Sheet over Old Idea
- How Wondering is Essential
- How the Lighthouse Meant Something
- How Some Re-Write Their Epic Poems
- How Time Expands
- How She Rations Herself
- How Mixture Causes Relationships
- How I Was Wearing the Hood That Day
- White Suit/Far Off Reality
- Meetings that Mattered
- Say the Words
- Country Life
- Canary
- Pause and Repeat
- Jackie's Little Town
- Dave like a Bellhop in a Maroon Suit Pointing the Way
- Out of Order
- In Vain
- Nobody's Going to Sleep Tonight
- Today's Forecast
111
- Chickens and Us
- Last Amphibian Flees Calgary Airport
- Smooth
- Along the Way
- Our Spiritual Lives
- Once Again
- The Favoured Form
- Back Then
- Nearly There
- Story Interruptus
- An Outpouring of Generous Abandonment
- Saga
- Local Gossip
- Her Advice
- An Interesting Woman
- Private Life
- Bulletin
- Over
- Things Blowing Over
- The Smart Jam is in Finance
- The Logic of a Dream
- The Prayer we Prefer
- The Americans Will Not Save You for Christmas
- The Rockets of It
- The Next Story
1.
- Young Man With Leaflets
- Tanya's Muffins
- How the Summer Wash Deserts Us
- The Day is Old Enough to have Complications
- A True Story about Normal Circumstances Including Some Insane Footage
- Everyone's Life Was a Labyrinth
- A Frothy Moment Keeps the World Afloat
- The State
- A Noise in the World
- When the Last Straw is a Tomato
- We Appreciate Him Now
- His Trouble
- Couple Sucks Same Candy
- Juliet Nearly Succumbs
- Bit Part/Twin Peaks
- Nothing Could be More Like Life Than What We Were Watching
- He Could be Droll
- Autumn Idyll
- Steak Soup
- The Freshest Look is an Odd Shape
- Orange as a Ball
- Some of the Many Reasons
- The Times Felt Like Doctoring
- Feathers, Dirt, Bugs
- The Moment Contracts
11
- Otherwise a Blank Canvas
- No Kidding!
- Espresso
- Geese Like Carpet Bombers
- Wanting Cake
- White Sheet over Old Idea
- How Wondering is Essential
- How the Lighthouse Meant Something
- How Some Re-Write Their Epic Poems
- How Time Expands
- How She Rations Herself
- How Mixture Causes Relationships
- How I Was Wearing the Hood That Day
- White Suit/Far Off Reality
- Meetings that Mattered
- Say the Words
- Country Life
- Canary
- Pause and Repeat
- Jackie's Little Town
- Dave like a Bellhop in a Maroon Suit Pointing the Way
- Out of Order
- In Vain
- Nobody's Going to Sleep Tonight
- Today's Forecast
111
- Chickens and Us
- Last Amphibian Flees Calgary Airport
- Smooth
- Along the Way
- Our Spiritual Lives
- Once Again
- The Favoured Form
- Back Then
- Nearly There
- Story Interruptus
- An Outpouring of Generous Abandonment
- Saga
- Local Gossip
- Her Advice
- An Interesting Woman
- Private Life
- Bulletin
- Over
- Things Blowing Over
- The Smart Jam is in Finance
- The Logic of a Dream
- The Prayer we Prefer
- The Americans Will Not Save You for Christmas
- The Rockets of It
- The Next Story