C. P. Boyko

The Children's War (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In his fourth collection, C. P. Boyko turnshis keen eye to the question of power-in schools and on campuses, in doctor's offices and boardrooms, in triage tents and on the battlefield. A high-school math teacher tries too hard to be liked; childhood friends grow up and go to war for very different reasons; for purposes not entirely medical, a dentist hypnotizes a patient; management and workers struggle for control of a faltering factory; infantries comprised exclusively of women meet in battle; and undergraduates occupy a university president's offfice, rallying beneath the flag of moral outrage.

Moving effortlessly through a range of styles, from contemporary realist fiction and episodic adventures to three-act plays and polyvocal narratives, Boyko's chameleon talents reveal the thread that binds his disparate characters and plots: the hunger to hold power and all the ways we are consumed by it. Clear-eyed but not cynical, satirical without being sarcastic, The Children's War is as entertaining as it is insightful.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biblioasis
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771962148
• Artikelnr.: 53438397

Autorenporträt

C. P. Boyko lives and writes in Vancouver.

Inhaltsangabe

Andrew and Hillary
Year-End
Birth Pangs
The Purpose of the Music Club
Infantry
The Takeover of Founder's Hall