Widening the Road

By Fred Bonnie

Fred Bonnie's previous collection, Detecting Metal, was included in Booklist's Top of the List for 1998. We believe that you will find this collection as deserving. Bonnie is a writer who's not afraid... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942979656
• ISBN13: 9780942979657
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Livingston Pr
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A gifted, unique writer, a major literary talent.

Widening The Road is a superb collection of short stories by Fred Bonnie which were originally published by the Oberon Press of Ottawa. For this Livingston Press edition, Bonnie has undertaken extensive revisions. His stories examine the human experience as it is occurs to men and women of all ages who become involved in minor struggles that loom in major ways during the "existential moment". Through obstinate wit, resourcefulness, and a bit of luck, Bonnie's characters triumph in the end through hilarious and unexpected ways. The stories anthologized here include: Squatter's Rights; Fifty Winters; Piano Skirmish; In Search of Number Seven; Extreme Unction; Widening the Road; All You Can Eat Night; Roland Frogg; Gone With Wind--Be Back Soon; Sign Language; The Cookie Trick; The Race for Last Place; Nick the Russian; Selling Delphinium; and Screwdriver. Fred Bonnie is a gifted, unique writer and Widening The Road showcases this major literary talent to a whole new generation of readers.