Clark Blaise

• Dec-1984
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"Engaging, stirring, and hard to put down." -- The New York Times Book ReviewFirst published in 1979, Lunar Attractions is the story of David Greenwood, a whimsical boy from the Florida backwoods whose shocking sexual awakening propels him into the w...

• Mar-1985
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• Sep-1986
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• Sep-1992
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• Feb-1997
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Clark Blaise was born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1940 to French and Anglo-Canadian parents. He moved often during his childhood years as the family followed the usually disastrous fortunes of his furniture salesman father which have been chronicled...

• Nov-2000
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The stories collected here in Volume One are among the earliest in Blaise's forty-year publishing career. The experience of Florida -- particularly the underdeveloped north-central areas close to modern Disneyfied Orlando -- profoundly affected a ...

• Nov-2003
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Here gathered together are the Montreal-set stories which made Clark Blaise famous -- such stories as `A Class of New Canadians', `Eyes', and `I'm Dreaming of Rocket Richard' -- alongside two new and unpublished Montreal stories, `The Belle of She...

• Dec-2006
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Clark Blaise is more than just a local colourist who ferrets out the curious details of `marginal' communities in order to delight cosmopolitan readers. Rather, if we consider the full arc of his work, we see that for nearly fifty years he has bee...

• Jun-2011
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize NomineeLonglisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award"Clark Blaise’s brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimat...

• May-2016
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In celebrated Canadian author Clark Blaise's eerily rendered Cold-War-era suburbia, a teenage boy faces an enemy that is much closer to home when his brother is diagnosed with a debilitating disease. ...

• Nov-2022
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"Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of."—Quill & Quire“If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimme...