This Time, That Place (ebook)

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Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of. Quill & QuireIf you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimmer cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, writes Margaret Atwood, read the stories of Clark Blaise.This Time, That Placedraws together twenty-four stories that span the entirety of Blaises career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across place and time, through and between languagesfrom Floridas Confederate swamps, to working-class Pittsburgh, to Montreal and abroadthey demonstrate Blaises profound mastery of the short story and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identity as fallacy, fable, and dream.This Time, That Place: Selected Storiesconfirms Clark Blaise as one of the best and most enduring masters of the formon either side of our shared borders.Praise for Clark BlaiseIf you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden simmering cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, read the stories of Clark Blaise. Hes the recording angel and the accuser, rolled into one. Hes the eye at the keyhole. Hes the ear at the door.Margaret AtwoodBlaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.Quill & QuireClark Blaises brilliantly imaginedThe Meagre Tarmacis a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations with the rich and compelling detail for which [his] fiction is renowned Remarkable.Joyce Carol Oates