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By Terry Doyle

***DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FINALIST***

***ALISTAIR MACLEOD PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION FINALIST**

***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD - FICTION FINALIST***

***NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD FINALIST***

***2020 RELIT AWARDS: LONG SHORTLIST***

In twelve dialed-in and exceptionally honed short stories, Terry Doyle presents an enduring assortment of characters channelled through the chain reactions of misfortune and redemption. A construction worker's future is bound to a feckless and suspicious workmate. A young woman's burgeoning social activism is constrained by hardship and the desperation of selling puppies online. A wedding guest recognizes a panhandler attending the reception. And a man crafts a concealed weapon with which to carry out his nightly circuit of paltry retribution. Through keen-eyed observation, and with an impressive economy of statement, Doyle conveys these characters over a backdrop of private absurdities and confusions--countering the overbearance of a post-tragic age with grit, irony, and infinitesimal signs of hope.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550817590
• ISBN13: 9781550817591
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"