| Confidence: Stories Contributor(s): Smith, Russell (Author) |
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ISBN: 1771960159 ISBN-13: 9781771960151 Publisher: Biblioasis OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.55 lbs) 158 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize. Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Among the National Post's 50 Best Books of 2015 One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2015 Among NOW Toronto's Top 10 Books of 2015 In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. There is one magic cinema and everyone has a secret of some kind. Russell Smith is the author of Girl Crazy and How Insensitive. Confidence, recently longlisted for the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, is his US debut. |