Clark Blaise 
The Meagre Tarmac [EPUB ebook] 

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Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize


2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee


Longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award


‘Clark Blaise’s brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of individuals for whom we come to care deeply – and a portrait of an Indo-American way of life that shimmers before our eyes with the rich and compelling detail for which Clark Blaise’s fiction is renowned .… The Meagre Tarmac is a remarkable accomplishment.’—Joyce Carol Oates


An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, The Meagre Tarmac explores the places where tradition, innovation, culture, and power meet with explosive force. It begins with Vivek Waldekar, who refused to attend his father’s funeral because he was “trying to please an American girl who thought starting a fire in his father’s body too gross a sacrilege to contemplate.” It ends with Pranab Dasgupta, the Rockefeller of India, who can only describe himself as “‘a very lonely, very rich, very guilty immigrant.’” And in between is a cluster of remarkable characters, incensed by the conflict between personal desire and responsibility, who exhaust themselves in pursuit of the miraculous. Fearless and ferociously intelligent, these stories are vintage Blaise, whose outsider’s view of the changing heart of America has always been ruthless and moving and tender.


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Contents


The Sociology of Love 7

In Her Prime 21

The Dimple Kapadia of Camino Real 34

Dear Abhi 44

Brewing Tea in the Dark

The Quality of Life 71

A Connie da Cunha Book 88

Waiting for Romesh 103

Potsy and Pansy 114

Isfahan 135

Man and Boy 150

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Clark Blaise (1940-), Canadian and American, is the author of 20 books of fiction and nonfiction. A longtime advocate for the literary arts in North America, Blaise has taught writing and literature at Emory, Skidmore, Columbia, NYU, Sir George Williams, UC-Berkeley, SUNY-Stony Brook, and the David Thompson University Centre. In 1968, he founded the postgraduate Creative Writing Program at Concordia University; he after went on to serve as the Director of the International Writing Program at Iowa (1990-1998), and as President of the Society for the Study of the Short Story (2002-present). Internationally recognized for his contributions to the field, Blaise has received an Arts and Letters Award for Literature from the American Academy (2003), and in 2010 was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Blaise now divides his time between New York and San Francisco, where he lives with his wife, American novelist Bharati Mukherjee.

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Bahasa Inggris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman 184 ● ISBN 9781926845333 ● Ukuran file 1.3 MB ● Penerbit Biblioasis ● Diterbitkan 2011 ● Diunduh 24 bulan ● Mata uang EUR ● ID 2433700 ● Perlindungan salinan Adobe DRM
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