Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-55096-836-1
Verlag: Exile Editions

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Wise and humorous stories that explore people’s extraordinary lives in suburbia’s little wild spaces. Routinely maligned as a bastion of boredom and conformity, the suburb is examined in a different light in Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair. At the heart of these fourteen short stories is refusal of the monotonous and the struggle for individuality in a place so relentlessly homogenous. In his third short story collection, Mark Paterson introduces the town of Montclair, a fictional suburb in the North Shore of Montreal, where he celebrates characters who, out of restlessness, out of nothing, make their lives on the outskirts of the big city a little bit – or a lot – out of the ordinary. With Paterson’s trademark humour and emotion, Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair explores suburbia’s little wild spaces: the places hidden away in overgrown fields behind commercial buildings, beneath concrete schoolyard staircases, and in the hearts and minds of its inhabitants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paterson, Mark

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Paterson is the author of the short story collections A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine, and Other People's Showers. He was shortlisted for the $15,000 Carter V Cooper Short Fiction Competition (2018), is a past winner of the 3Macs carte blanche Prize (2010) and the Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest (2009).