With characters ranging from desperate to wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives employs virtuosic wordplay and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about people; he enables readers to enter his characters' frailty and courage. His vivid wordplay evokes with equal verve the tragedy of "Burn Man," who refers to himself in the third person in order to inhabit his disfigured body; and the cutting comedy of a delusional narrator who sees Margaret Atwood in some hilariously unlikely guises.
- ISBN10 0887846629
- ISBN13 9780887846625
- Publish Date 1 October 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint House of Anansi Press
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 160
- Language English