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The Gimmick¿ - Novelettes, stories, and sketches¿

English · Paperback / Softback

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"Vern Smith is a phantasmatic presence hovering over hard luck debacles and muted urban theater, colloquy consisting of full-bodied gestures captured in the word, messy lives tangled at the root, twisting misshapen into bloom. He haunts the North American literary canon with a salt-of-the-earth journalist’s ear for the unspoken and unspeakable. There is an uncanny violence to these selections, as if there before the fact, now willed into expression in lean, muscular, lockstep cadences that model with sobering, unsentimental reverence and radical, stethoscopic clarity the raging interiority of the North American animal/everyman/mammal. With preternatural stylistic range, Vern Smith renders the ineffable with documentary devotion. It is poetic realism with exacting, brutal command of the minimal. Nothing less than ink, pulp, and blood amalgamated with sinew and synapses." – Manuel Marrero, author of Not Yet


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Vern Smith is the editor of Jacked, a new crime fiction anthology. He is author of the novels Under the Table and The Green Ghetto. His novelette, The Gimmick-a finalist for Canada's highest crime-writing honor, the Arthur Ellis Award-is the title track to his second collection of fiction. A Windsor, Ontario native and longtime resident of downtown Toronto, he now lives on the outskirts of Chicago.

Product details

Authors Vern Smith, Vernon Smith
Publisher RunAmok Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.03.2020
 
EAN 9781733352604
ISBN 978-1-73335-260-4
No. of pages 146
Dimensions 133 mm x 203 mm x 8 mm
Weight 173 g
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Kriminalromane und Mystery, Thriller / Spannung, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction - Mystery / Detective

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