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Cities
of Weather
by Matthew
Fox
Short Stories
ISBN:
978-1-896332-20-8
Trade Paper / French Flaps
5.125" x 7.625"
$22.95
300 pages
BISAC Codes
FIC019000
Fiction/Literary
FIC011000
Fiction/Gay
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Cities
of Weather
by Matthew
Fox
McAuslan First Book Prize of the Quebec Writers'
Federation 2005, nominee
Cities of Weather is a collection
of eleven short stories that place readers alongside quirky, loveable
— and often hilarious — characters as they make their
way through their lives. Each story builds in scope and significance
until a final crescendo where the characters must confront the fortunes
they have prepared.
An obsessive sculptress finds herself alone after lying to everyone
she knows; a gay telemarketer who fantasises about flying lands
at the romantic mercy of a beautiful rock star; two roommates compete
to write better eulogies after a tragic car accident kills their
friends.
Although the style of each story reflects the different mentalities
of its characters, the collection itself is unified through the
overarching metaphor of weather and by characters that reveal their
fates by re-surfacing in subsequent stories.
Lushly described, the settings of these stores are as diverse as
the characters that inhabit them: Montreal just after its beautiful
and dangerous ice storm, Manhattan trapped in an autumn drought.
Cities of Weather is both funny
and human, showing that there is beauty and significance at every
turn.
"Matthew Fox is a young writer to watch. He writes with sensitivity
about characters you may recognize from your own life. Cities
of Weather has intelligence, warmth, and genuine promise."
— Aaron Hamburger, author of The View from Stalin's Head
About Matthew Fox. |
