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- État
- Publication Date
- 2011-06-07
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN
- 9781926845159
- Book Title
- Meagre Tarmac
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Biblioasis
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Item Weight
- 8.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award Clark Blaise's brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of individuals for whom we come to care deeply - and a portrait of an Indo-American way of life that shimmers before our eyes with the rich and compelling detail for which Clark Blaise's fiction is renowned .... The Meagre Tarmac is a remarkable accomplishment.--Joyce Carol Oates An Indo-American Canterbury Tales , The Meagre Tarmac explores the places where tradition, innovation, culture, and power meet with explosive force. It begins with Vivek Waldekar, who refused to attend his father's funeral because he was "trying to please an American girl who thought starting a fire in his father's body too gross a sacrilege to contemplate." It ends with Pranab Dasgupta, the Rockefeller of India, who can only describe himself as "'a very lonely, very rich, very guilty immigrant.'" And in between is a cluster of remarkable characters, incensed by the conflict between personal desire and responsibility, who exhaust themselves in pursuit of the miraculous. Fearless and ferociously intelligent, these stories are vintage Blaise, whose outsider's view of the changing heart of America has always been ruthless and moving and tender.
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1926845153
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9781926845159
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Meagre Tarmac
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Trade Paperback
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English
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Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
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2011
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Yes
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
184 Pages
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Item Length
8.2 in
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0.5 in
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5.3 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
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"Top work from a master storyteller and border-crosser ... a gem of a book." —Margaret Atwood "Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of." — Quill & Quire "The Meagre Tarmac is a naked instance of appropriation of voice—a literary felony justified in this case by the results." —Philip Marchand, National Post "Not to be forgotten ... is Clark Blaise's collection The Meagre Tarmac , wherein a writer's writer excelled himself and got more attention than he has received in a long time, though still not as much as he deserves."—Ian McGillis, Gazette "You know it's going to be a stellar year for fiction when Clark Blaise publishes something. The Meagre Tarmac ... demonstrates yet again that Blaise is one of the continent's master authors."— Uptown "On the leading edge of world literature." —John Barber, Globe and Mail "What holds the collection together is Blaise's mastery of the short story, his ability to give us a whole personality and the sensuous particularity of lived experiences in a handful of pages." —Steven Hayward, Globe and Mail "It is the cultural, geographical, and historical scope of the stories that most impresses ... wickedly subtle ... this book is anything but meagre." — Toronto Star "As good a collection as any I've read." — Montreal Gazette "A collection greater than the sum of its formidable parts."— Montreal Gazette "Masterpiece. That's a big word. In 20 years of writing book reviews I don't think I've ever used it, but I'm throwing the dart at The Meagre Tarmac." —The Underground Book Club, Praise for Clark Blaise Award Recipient from the Academy of Arts & Letters Officer of the Order of Canada "The elegant stories in The Meagre Tarmac constitute a warning of sorts ... the old tables are turning."-- Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books "Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of." -- Quill & Quire "On the leading edge of world literature." --John Barber, Globe and Mail "The Meagre Tarmac is a naked instance of appropriation of voice--a literary felony justified in this case by the results." --Philip Marchand, National Post "Not to be forgotten ... is Clark Blaise's collection The Meagre Tarmac , wherein a writer's writer excelled himself and got more attention than he has received in a long time, though still not as much as he deserves."-- Ian McGillis, Gazette "You know it's going to be a stellar year for fiction when Clark Blaise publishes something. The Meagre Tarmac ... demonstrates yet again that Blaise is one of the continent's master authors."-- Uptown "What holds the collection together is Blaise's mastery of the short story, his ability to give us a whole personality and the sensuous particularity of lived experiences in a handful of pages." --Steven Hayward, Globe and Mail "Blaise meticulously conveys a sense of connection and isolation in the lives of Indian immigrants who are detached from their former lives and country, 'untethered to any earth,' and yet are shape and guided by that absence ... Such connection is beautifully contrasted by the way the opening stories fracture a single family's narrative into multiple perspectives, illustrating the divide that separates people from one another and rendering it more tangible than any geographical border. In the end, The Meagre Tarmac is like a slow exclamation caught halfway between a sigh and laughter, between hope and despair, connection and dissonance."-- Canadian Literature, Praise for Clark Blaise Award Recipient from the Academy of Arts & Letters Officer of the Order of Canada The elegant stories in The Meagre Tarmac constitute a warning of sorts … the old tables are turning."— Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books "Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of." — Quill & Quire "On the leading edge of world literature." —John Barber, Globe and Mail "The Meagre Tarmac is a naked instance of appropriation of voice—a literary felony justified in this case by the results." —Philip Marchand, National Post "Not to be forgotten ... is Clark Blaise's collection The Meagre Tarmac , wherein a writer's writer excelled himself and got more attention than he has received in a long time, though still not as much as he deserves."— Ian McGillis, Gazette "You know it's going to be a stellar year for fiction when Clark Blaise publishes something. The Meagre Tarmac ... demonstrates yet again that Blaise is one of the continent's master authors."— Uptown "What holds the collection together is Blaise's mastery of the short story, his ability to give us a whole personality and the sensuous particularity of lived experiences in a handful of pages." —Steven Hayward, Globe and Mail "Blaise meticulously conveys a sense of connection and isolation in the lives of Indian immigrants who are detached from their former lives and country, 'untethered to any earth,' and yet are shape and guided by that absence ... Such connection is beautifully contrasted by the way the opening stories fracture a single family's narrative into multiple perspectives, illustrating the divide that separates people from one another and rendering it more tangible than any geographical border. In the end, The Meagre Tarmac is like a slow exclamation caught halfway between a sigh and laughter, between hope and despair, connection and dissonance."— Canadian Literature, "Top work by a master storyteller and border-crosser." —Margaret Atwood "...a collection greater than the sum of its formidable parts." —Ian McGillis, Montreal Gazette " The Meagre Tarmac is a naked instance of appropriation of voice — a literary felony justified in this case by the results." —Philip Marchand, The National Post " The Meagre Tarmac digs deeper than ever into the cross-cultural loam...on the leading edge of world literature" —John Barber, The Globe and Mail "Having returned to a few of Blaise's stories twice, and a few got three readings, I found new depths, new insights, and ways of reading each time — and that's a bit disconcerting, especially when I'm trying to nail down a particular understanding. Each time through, the stories grew in scope and consequence. Isn't that a brilliant problem though? I found this collection of stories drawn around Indian immigrants in North America to be utterly fascinating — and at time breathtaking." — The Winnipeg Review " The Meager Tarmac is a must for any short fiction readers who like when it tackles social issues." — The Fiction Shelf "Ultimately, what holds the collection together is Blaise's mastery of the short story, his ability to give us a whole personality and the sensuous particularity of lived experiences in a handful of pages." — The Globe and Mail "Blaise makes something suprisingly fresh out of this material, helped in no small part by his dense and dryly funny prose." — The Toronto Star "[The Meagre tarmac] fits very nicely into the oeuvre of an author whose searing insights into displacement, deracination, geographical wandering, and cultural belonging are second to none." — The Vancouver Straight "The mark of a master craftsman...his stories are inward journeys, endless and unticketed" — Kitchener-Waterloo Record PRAISE FOR CLARK BLAISE "Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of." — Quill & Quire "If we consider the full arc of his work, we see that for nearly fifty years he has been challenging the way that we understand the concept of place in contemporary Canadian and American Literature." — Essays in Canadian Writing "[Blaise] belongs to an American literary tradition that includes Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty."— The National Post "More often than not, Blaise meets the high standard he has set for himself. In story after story, he deftly blends musings and incidents, subjecting all to searing analysis that never lapses into pat explanation. He's one of those ‘genuine artists' Chekhov celebrated in yet another letter to Suvorin, the ones who know full well you'd best keep your eyes wide open."— The Georgia Review "What I value about Clark Blaise is the way in which he perceives the world: his sensibility, his respect for the other, his curiosity and his almost scientific talent for going to the heart of the matter, revealing the hidden layers, connecting the seemingly unconnectable. And yet, Clark's scientific precision does not prevent him from being a man of beautifully weird fantasies and humour. One can also say: this man is not a globalizer—he's an internationalist."—Michael Augustin, Praise for Clark Blaise Award Recipient from the Academy of Arts & Letters Officer of the Order of Canada The elegant stories in The Meagre Tarmac constitute a warning of sorts … the old tables are turning."— Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books "Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of." — Quill & Quire "On the leading edge of world literature." —John Barber, Globe and Mail "The Meagre Tarmac is a naked instance of appropriation of voice—a literary felony justified in this case by the results." —Philip Marchand, National Post "Not to be forgotten ... is Clark Blaise's collection The Meagre Tarmac , wherein a writer's writer excelled himself and got more attention than he has received in a long time, though still not as much as he deserves."— Ian McGillis, Gazette "You know it's going to be a stellar year for fiction when Clark Blaise publishes something. The Meagre Tarmac ... demonstrates yet again that Blaise is one of the continent's master authors."— Uptown "What holds the collection together is Blaise's mastery of the short story, his ability to give us a whole personality and the sensuous particularity of lived experiences in a handful of pages." —Steven Hayward, Globe and Mail, Praise for Clark Blaise Award Recipient from the Academy of Arts & Letters Officer of the Order of Canada "The elegant stories in The Meagre Tarmac constitute a warning of sorts ... the old tables are turning."--Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books "Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of." --Quill & Quire "On the leading edge of world literature." --John Barber, Globe and Mail "The Meagre Tarmac is a naked instance of appropriation of voice--a literary felony justified in this case by the results." --Philip Marchand, National Post "Not to be forgotten ... is Clark Blaise's collection The Meagre Tarmac, wherein a writer's writer excelled himself and got more attention than he has received in a long time, though still not as much as he deserves."--Ian McGillis, Gazette "You know it's going to be a stellar year for fiction when Clark Blaise publishes something. The Meagre Tarmac ... demonstrates yet again that Blaise is one of the continent's master authors."--Uptown "What holds the collection together is Blaise's mastery of the short story, his ability to give us a whole personality and the sensuous particularity of lived experiences in a handful of pages." --Steven Hayward, Globe and Mail "Blaise meticulously conveys a sense of connection and isolation in the lives of Indian immigrants who are detached from their former lives and country, 'untethered to any earth,' and yet are shape and guided by that absence ... Such connection is beautifully contrasted by the way the opening stories fracture a single family's narrative into multiple perspectives, illustrating the divide that separates people from one another and rendering it more tangible than any geographical border. In the end, The Meagre Tarmac is like a slow exclamation caught halfway between a sigh and laughter, between hope and despair, connection and dissonance."--Canadian Literature, "Top work from a master storyteller and border-crosser ... a gem of a book." —Margaret Atwood "Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of." — Quill & Quire "The Meagre Tarmac is a naked instance of appropriation of voice—a literary felony justified in this case by the results." —Philip Marchand, National Post "Not to be forgotten ... is Clark Blaise's collection The Meagre Tarmac , wherein a writer's writer excelled himself and got more attention than he has received in a long time, though still not as much as he deserves."-Ian McGillis, Gazette "You know it's going to be a stellar year for fiction when Clark Blaise publishes something. The Meagre Tarmac ... demonstrates yet again that Blaise is one of the continent's master authors."- Uptown "On the leading edge of world literature." —John Barber, Globe and Mail "What holds the collection together is Blaise's mastery of the short story, his ability to give us a whole personality and the sensuous particularity of lived experiences in a handful of pages." —Steven Hayward, Globe and Mail "It is the cultural, geographical, and historical scope of the stories that most impresses ... wickedly subtle ... this book is anything but meagre." — Toronto Star "As good a collection as any I've read." — Montreal Gazette "A collection greater than the sum of its formidable parts."— Montreal Gazette "Masterpiece. That's a big word. In 20 years of writing book reviews I don't think I've ever used it, but I'm throwing the dart at The Meagre Tarmac." —The Underground Book Club, "Top work from a master storyteller and border-crosser ... a gem of a book." —Margaret Atwood "Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of." — Quill & Quire "The Meagre Tarmac is a naked instance of appropriation of voice—a literary felony justified in this case by the results." —Philip Marchand, National Post "On the leading edge of world literature." —John Barber, Globe and Mail "What holds the collection together is Blaise's mastery of the short story, his ability to give us a whole personality and the sensuous particularity of lived experiences in a handful of pages." —Steven Hayward, Globe and Mail "It is the cultural, geographical, and historical scope of the stories that most impresses ... wickedly subtle ... this book is anything but meagre." — Toronto Star "A collection greater than the sum of its formidable parts."—Montreal Gazette "Masterpiece. That's a big word. In 20 years of writing book reviews I don't think I've ever used it, but I'm throwing the dart at The Meagre Tarmac." —The Underground Book Club, Clark Blaise "s brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of individuals for whom we come to care deeply " and a portrait of an Indo-American way of life that shimmers before our eyes with the rich and compelling detail for which Clark Blaise "s fiction is renowned . The Meagre Tarmac is a remarkable accomplishment (Joyce Carol Oates).
Table of Content
Contents The Sociology of Love 7 In Her Prime 21 The Dimple Kapadia of Camino Real 34 Dear Abhi 44 Brewing Tea in the Dark The Quality of Life 71 A Connie da Cunha Book 88 Waiting for Romesh 103 Potsy and Pansy 114 Isfahan 135 Man and Boy 150
Copyright Date
2011
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Dewey Edition
22
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