This Time, That Place - 9781771964890

Biblioasis

This Time, That PlaceSelected Stories\nAuthor(s): Clark Blaise, Margaret Atwood\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Biblioasis, Canada\nImprint: Biblioasis\nISBN-13: 9781771964890, 978-1771964890\nSynopsis\n\""Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.\""\nQuill & Quire\n\nIf 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 Place draws together twenty-four stories that span the entirety of Blaise's career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across place and time, through and between languagesfrom Florida's Confederate swamps, to working-class Pittsburgh, to Montreal and abroadthey demonstrate Blaise's profound mastery of the short story and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identit.