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A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists
By Radu Guiasu
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Publish Date
November 26, 2024
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Fiction / Humorous
Fiction / Satire
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Growing up under a dictatorship and the toil of academic life don’t seem like laughing matters, but the lighthearted stories in A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists find humour in all corners. Radu Guiaşu draws on his own experiences of academia, research, teaching, exploring nature, and growing up in Romania as inspiration for thirty-six short pieces that offer an entertaining escape from the mundane.
A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists is a wide-ranging collection that includes prose fiction as well as more inventive literary forms, such as lists, all-dialogue stories, and hermit-crab pieces such as a fake rejection letter. Full of clean, intelligent humour, this collection is unified by Radu Guiaşu’s wry, satirical voice, sure to put a smile on your face.
Dr. Radu Guiaşu grew up in Romania and moved to Canada at age eighteen. Holding four university degrees in biology, education, and zoology, including a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Radu Guiaşu is a tenured university professor who teaches and conducts research in fields such as ecology, animal behaviour, and conservation biology. He has won teaching and research awards, and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, two academic biology books, as well as a novel, The Faraway Mountains, which was inspired by his experiences growing up under a communist dictatorship. He lives in the Greater Toronto Area with his family.
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