Katherine Fawcett

The Swan Suit (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Blending banalities of everyday human routines and dilemmas with elements of fairy tales, magic, the macabre and the downright inventive, Katherine Fawcett's fiction is anything but predictable.

In this collection, reimagined folktales appear alongside stories entirely new, serving to defamiliarize us from the undeniably odd tales we continue to pass down generation after generation, and lend a vague familiarity to the stories of Fawcett's invention.

One of the three little pigs launches a line of high-end, easy-to-prepare, wolf broth-based meals. The Devil is on a mission to steal a child's soul, but is distracted when he develops a massive crush on the day-care worker. A man stands in the shower contemplating his future when he discovers tiny mushrooms growing in his body's various nooks and crannies.

Fawcett's wry humour and prodigious imagination are an addictive mix. The weird becomes normal, and the normal, fascinating. Subverting expectations at every turn, her matter-of-fact style and narrative skill make this collection a must-read for any lover of short fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771622615
• Artikelnr.: 59981012

Autorenporträt

Katherine Fawcett's previous short story collection, The Little Washer of Sorrows (Thistledown Press, 2015) was shortlisted for the ReLit Short Fiction Award and for a Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her short fiction has also appeared in Event, Geist, FreeFall, Grain, SubTerrain and Other Voices. She lives in Squamish, BC.