Publisher Description

A seeing-eye dog leads a blind man into a frozen river, a southern Baptist loses his memory and finds true love in Bel Air, an obese dot.com executive has "anorgasmic" latex sex with her CEO, and a homeless man in New York creates an intellectual universe based on Post-it notes stuck to the inside of his cardboard box shelter--Douglas Glover's stories are wildly inventive, deadpan comedies of our universal human catastrophe. They are sly, demanding and wise--stories about language, desire and love (in a very dark place). The humor veers from the wry and sardonic to the salacious, mordant and playful. And always there are moments of such stark emotional intimacy that the reader slides, almost without noticing, from laughter to lament.

Author Biography

Douglas Glover won the Governor Generals Award for fiction for Elle in November 2003, propelling this unusual historical novel onto bestseller lists throughout Canada. Even though he is always working outside the box, Glovers works of fiction have gained acclaim from the most attentive critics. A Canadian itinerant, Glover grew up on the family tobacco farm in southwestern Ontario, studied philosophy at York University and the University of Edinburgh, and then worked on a series of daily newspapers in New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan before earning his MFA at the Iowa Writers' W

Review

"Glover is preoccupied with the complicated interweavings of good and evil, and he juggles language superbly."

Review Quote

"Sad, sexy, and significant." (starred review)--Kirkus Reviews

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