Review
“If you love language and the truths that only a wild imagination can get at, you’ll love
Easy Living.” (David Doucette )
“
Easy Living contains some of the most haunting short fiction that Canada has ever produced.” (Mark D. Dunn )
Product Description
Many of the characters in
Easy Living are, by chance or choice, loners; some exist on the edge of estrangement, such as the narrators of “Bloodgroove” and “Scherzo,” and a few – like Jules Gibson in “Saskatchewan” – have toppled over. “Grebec” is set in the rural world of an elderly man confined to house arrest for shooting a teen-aged vandal. In “Sandcastles,” three young boys encounter a lone woman burying L.P.s on a beach, and some strange games ensue. While the situations these people find themselves in skew to the dark side, the writing itself is tactile and surprising, and also very funny. This tension – hardscrabble subjects, lively styles – is a defining characteristic of the collection.
