Lost Animal Club

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Ebook in EPUB format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

DRM:
Watermark

Publication Year:
2016

ISBN-13: 9781926455679

<p>Runner-up in the Prose Fiction category at the 2016 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!</p><p>In his debut story collection, Kevin A. Couture creates a world where the veneer of humanness stretches thin and often cracks as a menagerie of burdened characters reveal their beast-like traits. In his desperate survival plan, a pre-teen “rescues” dogs in order to sell them back to their well-off owners; a marathon pacesetter reflects on the pace she sets both on and off the race route, as she navigates her imperfect marriage; a man confronts his drive for alcohol and the deadly and isolating consequences that leave him to risk his last scrap of control; and two kids, for different reasons, execute their plan to capture a bear cub.</p><p><i>Lost Animal Club</i> combines murky sensibilities with finely rendered, precise prose. The writing is gripping and honest, with metaphors and similes as startling as the harsh choices the characters make.</p><p><br>Praise for <i>Lost Animal Club</i><br><br>"... executed with masterful control..."<br>~ Andrew MacDonald, <i>Event</i><br><br>"These stories stuck with me, so consuming that they infiltrated my dreams...."<br>~ <i>Worn Pages and Ink Blog</i></p>