Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Pollen
- Publisher
- DC Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2011
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Literary
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781897190746
- Publish Date
- Oct 2014
- List Price
- $32.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897190739
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $18.95
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About the authors
Tom Abray grew up near Strathroy, Ontario, and then moved to Montreal to study English at McGill University. After completing his M.A. in creative writing at Concordia University he began teaching at John Abbott College. His collection of short stories, Pollen (DC Books, 2011), was shortlisted for the Concordia University First Book Prize, as well as the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. He also written and directed a number of short films that have screened at festivals in North America and Europe.
Harold Hoefle teaches English and Creative Writing at John Abbott College. He lives in Montreal.
Editorial Reviews
'Also among the more interesting pieces are a couple of short vignettes that stray from conventional narrative approaches in favour of different, lyrical, or absurdist registers, like Wendy, Field Guide with its nonsense natural history and Snow with its paranoid voyeurism, and the longer tale, Swarm certainly a contender for the books high point which closes the collection. Using the elaborately sustained trope of a swarm of bees invading an apartment, Swarm shows a good touch and moments of real psychological sensitivity in its impressionistic look at the relationships shared by a trio of roommates.' -- MRB 2012