The Father of Octopus Wrestling: And Other Small Fictions

by Frankie McMillan

Darkly comic, surreal and full of perceptiveness about human vulnerability and eccentricity, Frankie McMillan's small fictions often duck and dive away from the reader's expectations. With a poet's sense of how single words or phrases ripple out with alternate meanings, and a dramatist's feeling for how apparently small gestures reveal character, and how sudden, cataclysmic change can wrench us out of comfort, routine and unthinking assumptions, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1988503124
• ISBN13: 9781988503127
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Canterbury University Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.0"