Gastonâs characteristic keen insight and wit dazzle in this new collection. Readers will see the world through the prism of unfamiliar perspectives: a bank executive whose excellent sex life might in fact be killing her, an amorous tree surgeon better attuned to the values of his âpatientsâ than to other people, a vacationing schizophrenic, a pizza-delivery boy convinced heâs witnessed magicâall struggling with the world as they see it.
This versatile collectionâat times darkly playful, absurd, or shockingly realâillustrates how we can fail to understand the simplest of truths and how we are trapped by the peculiarities of our own points of view.
The Globe and Mail says that âBill Gaston deserves to dwell in the company of Findlay, Atwood, and Munro as one of this countryâs literary treasures.â In his hands, the outlandish becomes comprehensible and everyday life comes to look strange. What unifies these stories and their characters is the underlying faith in the humanity of even the most dangerously misguided among us.
Brazenly entertaining, but just as often heartbreaking, Juliet Was a Surprise portrays the humour and unfairness of life through the blunders and crimes of quixotic men and women with whom we canât help but sympathize.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Humor & Satire
- Dark Humor
- Humor & Satire
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Author : Gaston, Bill
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2014-06-03
Number Of Pages : 216
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0143192418
ISBN-13 : 9780143192411
Item weight : 0.53 lb
Dimensions : 0.79 in x 5.51 in x 8.43 in
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