Lunar Attractions

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Engaging, stirring, and hard to put down.The New York Times Book ReviewFirst published in 1979,Lunar Attractionsis the story of David Greenwood, a whimsical boy from the Florida backwoods whose shocking sexual awakening propels him into the world of murder and extortion that roils beneath the surface of 1950s America.Praise for Clark BlaiseAward Recipient from the Academy of Arts & LettersOfficer of the Order of CanadaThe elegant stories inThe Meagre Tarmacconstitute a warning of sorts the old tables are turning.Margaret Atwood,The New York Review of BooksBlaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.Quill & QuireOn the leading edge of world literature.John Barber,Globe and MailThe Meagre Tarmac is a naked instance of appropriation of voicea literary felony justified in this case by the results.Philip Marchand,National PostNot to be forgotten is Clark Blaises collectionThe Meagre Tarmac, wherein a writers writer excelled himself and got more attention than he has received in a long time, though still not as much as he deserves.Ian McGillis,GazetteYou know its going to be a stellar year for fiction when Clark Blaise publishes something.The Meagre Tarmac demonstrates yet again that Blaise is one of the continents master authors.UptownWhat holds the collection together is Blaises mastery of the short story, his ability to give us a whole personality and the sensuous particularity of lived experiences in a handful of pages.Steven Hayward,Globe and Mail