Blue River and Red Earth
by Stephen Henighan
ISBN: 9781770865174
Format: Trade Paperback w/ Flaps
Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Price: $22.00
Publication Date: April 12, 2018
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Synopsis:
These eleven short stories cover a wide range of territory - from Toronto to Cuba to Eastern Europe. And, wide-ranging over geography as they are, they also cover an array of characters and situations that can only be situated in the twenty-first century.
Subjects:
FIC019000 FICTION / Literary
FIC011000 FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
Reviews
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“As much as place – or placelessness – is central to Blue River and Red Earth, it’s not the settings themselves the book explores; these stories are more about how different surroundings complicate existing relationships. The unpredictability of watching Doreen and Philip navigate the social minefield of the post-colonial, globalized world is both uncomfortable and fascinating.”
— Quill & Quire
“Henighan's prose has punch, with rich description and snappy nouns.”
— The Guelph Mercury
“Blue River and Red Earth is a bravura performance, a fast-paced, intensely readable, and profoundly moral story collection that takes as its milieu and subject matter the perilous state of identity and human relations in a globalized world.”
— Douglas Glover, author of the GG-winning novel Elle
“The stories collected in Blue River and Red Earth are ambitious, cosmopolitan, and quixotic; their real theme is the emotional errancy of their outsider characters.”
— Jean McNeil, author of the GG-nominated Private View