First published in 1972, Columbus and the Fat Lady introduced readers to award-winning Matt Cohen's skewed and hilarious worldview. By turns funny, surreal, wistful, savagely satirical, and brilliantly inventive, the stories in this collection intrigue and surprise the reader with their unexpected language and plots. He conjures up images that are both absurd and perceptive. From Sir Galahad as a schoolteacher to Christopher Columbus as a carnival attraction, these stories feature the improbable with strength and virtuosity. This collection is a foray into the jungles of life on this planet and the tangled but fascinating interiors of the human head.
MATT COHEN (1942-99) was an acclaimed author of adult and children's literature. His final novel, Elizabeth and After, won the Governor General's Literary Award. His other novels include The Disinherited and Emotional Arithmetic, which was adapted into a feature film. He is honoured by the Writers' Trust of Canada, of which he was a founding member, with the Matt Cohen Award, given out annually for lifetime achievement in Canadian literature. He also wrote several books for children under the pseudonym Teddy Jam. WAYNE GRADY is the author of two novels, Emancipation Day and Up from Freedom, and fourteen books of science and natural history. He is also the editor of six anthologies of short stories, including two co-edited by Matt Cohen, and one of Canada's top literary translators. He has won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation, among many other honours. He lives in Kingston, Ontario, with his wife, novelist Merilyn Simonds.
Title: Columbus and the Fat Lady A List ed.: And Other Stories
Author: Cohen, Matt
ISBN: 9781487007874
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Publisher: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Publication Date: 2020-03-19
Number of Pages: 224
Weight: 0.2601 kg