(story collection, 1982)
The comedy
of embarrassment. A collection of 12 stories, about a man fixated
on the Prime Minister, an E.J Pratt specialist teaching geology
in Tuktoyuktuk, group sex above an IGA, a young man resentful
of his visionary father, a flight with a suicidal pilot and his
terrorist friends, an English wedding (more group sex), an old
woman who takes in a derelict jogger, a paperback writer . . .
Out of print.
Reviews
"A developed
style, a precision of language, and a non-gimmicky dexterity of
imagination." -- Edmonton Journal
"Hollingshead
specializes in assembling incomprehensible signs into stories
using such careful and clear language that you begin to think
him logical." -- Anne Collins, Maclean's
"Wit, imagination,
intensity abound . . . an elegant sensibility." -- The Globe
and Mail
"Hollingshead
understands some of the most intricate manoeuvres of the human
heart." --Books in Canada
"[Hollingshead]
seems interested only in the fabulous, in the borderline between
perception and hallucination, knowing and wishing." -- Ken Adachi, Toronto Star
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