Dreamers and misfits of Montclair /
"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 st...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Holstein, Ontario :
Exile Editions,
2019.
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| Summary: | "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 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."-- |
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| Item Description: | Short stories. |
| Physical Description: | pages cm Issued also in electronic format. |
| ISBN: | 9781550968361 155096836X |