Burn Man: Selected Stories by Mark Anthony Jarman Paperback Book

Description: Burn Man by Mark Anthony Jarman "The best collected short fiction of Mark Anthony Jarman published over the last four decades."-- FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Literature at the highest level: heartrending, disquieting, fascinating."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Drawing together the best of his short fiction published over the last four decades, Burn Man: Selected Stories showcases Mark Anthony Jarmans sharply observed characters and acrobatic, voice-driven prose in stories that walk the tightrope between the commonplace and the mystical. With an insightful introduction from John Metcalf, this revelatory selection highlights one of the most spirited and singular masters of the short story form. Author Biography Mark Anthony Jarman. Review Praise for Burn Man"Anyone who enjoys poetry in prose, who feels enlivened by language and struck by sentences, will find much to admire in Burn Man. Jarmans stories are full of violence, tragedy and mistakes. Yet theres plenty of humor and heart too . . . Burn Man left me seeing a bit more beauty in our hurting-heart world."—Lincoln Michel, New York Times"A Canadian master of the form."—Gregory Cowles, New York Times"The stories in Burn Man, by the Canadian writer Mark Anthony Jarman, derive from the . . . raucous lineage of Barry Hannah, Thomas McGuane and Denis Johnson . . . He gives us a gallery of antiheroes—some of them bona fide criminals but many just screwups—who are helpless in the grip of their worst impulses."—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal"Jarmans stories on the whole feel less Catholic in the Roman sense and more Catholic in the Greek sense: his attentions are rangey, all-embracing, vitalized by the splendour both in ugly mundane violence and the febrile pulsations of longing, of something a bit like love."—Emily M. Keeler, Globe and Mail"In these 21 selected tales by Jarman—a Canadian writer who, if there were any literary justice, would be much better known in the US—marginalized men are on the road, on the run, failing to figure out how to stay in one place, how to stay sane, how to pin life down and make sense of it . . . Literature at the highest level: heartrending, disquieting, fascinating."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)"One doesnt read a Mark Anthony Jarman story so much as one experiences it . . . These 21 stories in Burn Man, selected by the author himself, are not ordered chronologically but rather the way a musician might sequence tracks on an album, paying careful attention to modulations in tempo and rhythm and how individual pieces play against one another."—Toronto Star"Reading Jarman is a wild ride . . . Jarman is brilliant, still relatively underdiscovered and worth the wait."—Winnipeg Free Press"Mark Anthony Jarman is doing something that nobody else is doing."—The Miramichi Reader"Reading Mark Anthony Jarman is like drinking from a fire hose."—Andrew Hood, The Bookshelf"A truly revelatory selection highlights from one of the most spirited and singular contemporary masters of the short story format."—Midwest Book Review"The music of broken men, splintered lives, and the salted souls left behind echo through the pages."—The Ampersand Review"The stories here are brightly coloured, sharp-edged and shatterproof."—Alberta Views"A compelling and thought-provoking work."—The Brunswickian"Mark Anthony Jarman has written some of the most electric short fiction produced in Canada over the past four decades, and Burn Man collects the very best work from his rich and radiant archive. Peopled with crazed explorers, woeful fathers, and afflicted divorcees, this book is a cauldron of slick, dizzying sentences and images that lodge like splinters in the brain. Jarman corrodes the manors of polite literature, rearranging the rubble in tableaus of astonishing beauty. A gift to literature, Canadian and beyond."—David Huebert, author of Chemical ValleyPraise for Mark Anthony Jarman"One of Canadas most accomplished prose stylists, with an affection for jazzy rhythms and oblique angles . . . the writing will be familiar to aficionados of the authors earlier work—the trilling sentences, the insouciant alliteration and assonance, the rococo metaphors, the sudden shifts in tone from light to dark, humour to startling violence."—Globe and Mail"Jarmans descriptions of Italys managed chaos of ruins and tourist traps and crowded cities are witty, evocative and, when he turns his attention to the displaced peoples from Africa, the Middle East and the Baltic states living rough in the dirty streets, often quite moving."—Toronto Star". . . as much travelogue, novel in hiding and prose poem as it is a collection of stand-alone stories. In fact, many of the stories do not stand alone. Rather, they lean on each other, interweave and inform each other, sharing a narrator, point of view, main characters and setting."—Atlantic Books Today"Jarman pulls off some ferociously good writing."—The Winnipeg Review"Jarmans prose has the momentum of travel, with vivid images and flashes of understanding about another way of life."—Foreword Reviews"Jarmans collection is called 19 Knives, and it is brilliant. The writing is extraordinary, the stories are gripping, it is something new."—A.S. Byatt, The Guardian Promotional Print run: 2000Advanced reader copiesEdelweiss digital review copiesNorth American TV & radio campaignNational print campaignOnline and social media campaignOutreach to academic marketsLaunch and festival appearances Details ISBN1771965479 Author Mark Anthony Jarman Publisher Biblioasis Format Paperback Pages 320 Series ReSet ISBN-13 9781771965477 Imprint Biblioasis Subtitle Selected Stories Place of Publication Emeryville Country of Publication Canada ISBN-10 1771965479 UK Release Date 2024-04-11 Year 2024 Audience General AU Release Date 2024-04-23 Publication Date 2024-02-29 DEWEY 813.54 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159862228;

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