This detective novel - presented in three distinct novellas - traces the ever deepening involvement of the protagonist Anthony de Stasio in a series of political nightmares, from a cursed firearm in "Steyr Mannlicher" that leads him through the world of a single mother's hardscrabble poverty; to the tormented life of a daughter imprisoned in a world her father built for her in "Photo Array"; to the workings of a mysterious postwar utopian cult that traffics street kids in an attempt to engineer a universal refusal of the vote in "The Unaffiliated." Each novella deepens Stasio's immersion in the charnel house of contemporary politics, and features a supporting cast of characters whose personal involvement attempts to rescue him from it.
Tamas Dobozy is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University; lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; and has published four books of short fiction, When X Equals Marylou, Last Notes and Other Stories, Siege 13: Stories (winner of the 2012 Rogers Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for both the Governor General's Award: Fiction, and the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award), and most recently, Ghost Geographies: Fictions. Tamas has published over seventy short stories in journals such as One Story, Fiction, Agni, and Granta, and won an O Henry Prize in 2011, and the Gold Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards in 2014.
ISBN: 9781772142266
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
Publisher: Anvil Press
Published: June 30, 2024
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