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What I want to tell goes like this : stories / Matt Rader.

Title
What I want to tell goes like this : stories / Matt Rader.
Author
Rader, Matt, 1978-
Publication
Gibsons, BC, Canada : Nightwood Editions, [2014]

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White, Silas
Description
254 pages; 22 cm
Summary
This is an intensely original first short story collection from acclaimed poet Matt Rader. Rader's command of tension is masterful in these dark, off-kilter stories that are largely set in the context of the working/labour class in and around the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, BC.
Subject
  • Working class > Vancouver Island > Fiction
  • Strikes and lockouts > Coal mining > Vancouver Island > Fiction
  • Fathers and sons > Fiction
  • Vancouver Island (B.C.) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Laurel Whalen -- The children of the Great Strike, Vancouver Island, 1912-14 -- You have to think of me what you think of me -- Brighton, where are you? -- Grand Forks, 1917 -- In Russia -- A half-wonder -- The selected Kid Curry -- Wejack -- Bearing the body -- At the lake -- Alone Mountain -- First women's batallion of death -- Homecoming -- All this was a long time ago.
ISBN
  • 9780889713062 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0889713065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2014486280
OCLC
883940267
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library