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This Will Be Difficult To Explain and Other Stories

Hardback (20 Sep 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

With this collection of wise, querying stories, Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud introduces an astonishing array of characters, showing us through their eyes what even they cannot see and uncorking minor epiphanies in the middle of ordinary days. These stories takes readers from South Dakota to Paris to Japan, into art galleries, foreign apartments, farms, and beach hotels, and shows us the liberating bewilderment of characters who come face to face with what they didn't know they didn't know.

Youth confronted with the mutterings of old age, restlessness bounded by the muddy confines of a backyard garden, callow hope coming up against the exigencies of everyday life-these are the tensions that weave through the everyday existence of Skibsrud's characters. The often conflicting, sometimes overlapping desires for intimacy and for radical freedom come to life in the lyrical, probing language that gives this collection its shape. Insightful and masterfully crafted, these stories bear the mark of one of Canada's most remarkable voices and linger in the mind long after the final page has been turned.

Book information

ISBN: 9780670066308
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
Pub date:
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 567g
Height: 218mm
Width: 140mm