Will is Shane Neilson’s debut collection of short fiction.
The book ranges from straightforward East Coast depictions of alcoholism and frustrated farming told in dense, lyric prose, to experimental works that play overtly with language and form. In Will, a boy is beaten by his father; another father cares for his epileptic son; an anesthetist addicted to sevoflurane ponders the works of Michael Jackson; Vladimir Nabokov takes a writer-in-residence position at Memorial University of Newfoundland; and World War I poet John McCrae dies. And yes, there is a hockey story.
Individual stories have appeared widely in magazines including Queen’s Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, Geist, and The Canadian Medical Association Journal, among others.
- ISBN10 1926531779
- ISBN13 9781926531779
- Publish Date 1 October 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Great Plains Publications Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 190
- Language English