rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: mariner's guide to self sabotage
    sub title: stories
  name:
    name part: Gaston, Bill
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: bcc
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 223 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: A Mariner's Guide to Self Sabotage is populated by the lonely and alienated, holders of secrets, members (or would-be members) of shadowy organizations, screw-ups, joyriders and runaways. Architects of their own destruction, Gaston's characters provoke an almost mythic response of simultaneous disbelief and recognition, as they painfully, deliberately, stubbornly carve a path for themselves, questioning every turn. Yet somehow, in spite of themselves, they sometimes manage to stumble into peace and even wisdom. This set of ten cautionary tales showcases Gaston's range and narrative versatility, moving seamlessly from the funny to the poignant to the surprising and absurd. The stories revel in the ironic and contrary, from a vegan working at a fish farm to a man getting his boat fixed the same day he plans to sink it to a man exchanging the keys to his Lincoln for a goat. Gaston has a gift for making ordinary moments feel transcendent, capturing the everyday to such a precise degree that it becomes universal. A Mariner's Guide to Self Sabotage shows how the sublime sometimes reveals itself in the moments most people would rather put behind them.
  note: Bill Gaston.
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, Canadian
  classification: C813/.54
  identifier: 1771621710
  identifier: 9781771621717
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 170410
    record change date: 20171016141408.0
    record identifier: in00003886555
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng