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City of Victoria Butler Book Prize: M.A.C. Farrant, The World Afloat (Winner) In The World Afloat, a series of seventy-five "miniatures" that melds narrative with elements of prose poem and farce, master of the absurd and expert observer M.A.C. Farrant peers into the complexities of human experience - through the rear window. Inside the linoleum-lined kitchens and lace-trimmed living rooms that drift through these stories, Farrant interrupts the daily routines - doctor's appointments, gardening, mealtimes - of her eccentric yet familiar characters with intensely surreal, laugh-out-loud…mehr
City of Victoria Butler Book Prize: M.A.C. Farrant, The World Afloat (Winner)
In The World Afloat, a series of seventy-five "miniatures" that melds narrative with elements of prose poem and farce, master of the absurd and expert observer M.A.C. Farrant peers into the complexities of human experience - through the rear window.
Inside the linoleum-lined kitchens and lace-trimmed living rooms that drift through these stories, Farrant interrupts the daily routines - doctor's appointments, gardening, mealtimes - of her eccentric yet familiar characters with intensely surreal, laugh-out-loud moments. What happens when a whimsical spirit becomes captive to a middle-aged body? At the end of a Love Your Package workshop, what does the wrap-up dinner look like? Can a soggy tomato salad really end someone's marriage? Brimming with pathos and bathos in equal measure, Farrant's smart prose offers escape and renewal from the monotony of modern life, while at the same time poking fun at her readers' pathological devotion to the technology and interpersonal relationships that leave them feeling bored and empty. Sexuality and depravity, childhood and bad parenting, and love and divorce are all deftly handled in this hot flash of a book that goes straight to the heart of things. As each "miniature" reads stranger (and truer) than the one before, Farrant manages to coax her readers from their well-worn, earthbound narratives and into a world afloat on satire, absurdity, and, in her most brilliant moments, expansive joy.
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M.A.C. Farrant is the author of seventeen works of fiction, prose poems, non-fiction, memoir, two plays, and over one hundred book reviews and essays for the Vancouver Sun and the Toronto 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," (Talon) was cited as a Best Fiction Book of 2012 by the Globe and Mail. The World Afloat (2014, Talon), 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 Talon Books in 2021, was a BC Bestseller. Forthcoming from Talon Books: Jigsaw-a puzzle in ninety-three-and-a-half pieces, (2023, NF); My Turquoise Years 20th Anniversary Edition (2024). Archived material is in the "Special Collections Branch" at the University of Victoria.
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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
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
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