(story collection, 1992)
A collection
of 15 stories, about a disintegrating relationship on a Spanish
island, an immigrant who believes his American car can heal itself,
a man discovering his grandfather through a memoir left by his
father, a vengeful dog locked in a van, parents in a hospital
with a mysteriously ill child, relationships among three unacceptable
people, a young couple who encounter a predator in Italy, a letter
to a judge from an 18th-century witch, a drug-dealer and his girlfriend,
a man obsessed with watches . . .
Out of print.
Reviews
"[Hollingshead]
particularly excels at evoking, without melodrama or hyperbole,
the dominant nightmares of the present." -- Books in Canada
"White
Buick is one of the best collections of stories I have read
in recent years. . . Writing doesn't get much better." -- Merna
Summers, The Edmonton Journal
"Hollingshead's
prose has quiet assurance. There is nothing unnecessary, nothing
overstated." -- Prairie Fire
"If, as I
do, you like our fiction to take imaginative leaps and to deliver
not just an accounting but a vision, and if, further, you'd prefer
to hear about that vision in clean, unaffected language that purrs
along like a big, white Buick, you can't go wrong with this brave,
intelligent, really brilliant new collection." -- Barbara Gowdy, The Globe and Mail |