19 Knives: Stories

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 09/01/2008
ISBN: 9780887848025
Pages: 145
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.66h x 6.62w x 0.40d