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A Life on Paper
Contributor(s): Chateaureynaud, Georges-Olivier (Author), Gauvin, Edward (Translator)
ISBN: 1931520623     ISBN-13: 9781931520621
Publisher: Small Beer Press
OUR PRICE:   $19.80  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2009054291
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (0.95 lbs) 256 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

The celebrated career of Georges-Olivier Ch teaureynaud is well known to readers of French literature. This comprehensive collection--the first to be translated into English--introduces a distinct and dynamic voice to the Anglophone world. In many ways, Ch teaureynaud is France's own Kurt Vonnegut, and his stories are as familiar as they are fantastic.

A Life on Paper presents characters who struggle to communicate across the boundaries of the living and the dead, the past and the present, the real and the more-than-real. A young husband struggles with self-doubt and an ungainly set of angel wings in "Icarus Saved from the Skies," even as his wife encourages him to embrace his transformation. In the title story, a father's obsession with his daughter leads him to keep her life captured in 93,284 unchanging photographs. While Ch teaureynaud's stories examine the diffidence and cruelty we are sometimes capable of, they also highlight the humanity in the strangest of us and our deep appreciation for the mysterious.

Georges-Olivier Ch teaureynaud is the author of eight novels and almost one hundred short stories, and he is a recipient of the prestigious Prix Renaudot and the Bourse Goncourt de la nouvelle. His work has been translated into twelve languages.

Edward Gauvin has published Ch teaureynaud's work in AGNI Online, Conjunctions, Words Without Borders, The Caf Irreal, and The Brooklyn Rail. The recipient of a residency from the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, he translates graphic novels for Tokyopop, First Second Books, and Archaia Studios Press.