These eight stories reveal a world that’s both recognizable and strange: cities of anxiety and violence, where quiet inhabitants lead outwardly banal lives that conceal sinister interiors. The premises, both fantastic and surreal, are also eerily plausible; they often follow the logic of dreams where the real can appear in disguise. Though geographically rooted, the setting – from Ottawa to Toronto and the South of France – take on an ephemeral dimension: the geography is of the subconscious.
With his darkly philosophical bent and sly humour, Alexis has fashioned an underworld and limned it with light. Despair quakes with life and sings with the imaginative brilliance of one of the most accomplished new talents writing today.
- ISBN10 0771006667
- ISBN13 9780771006661
- Publish Date 12 September 1998 (first published 1 September 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 232
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780771006661