Bill Gaston, Author . Raincoast $13.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-55192-451-9
A dozen rueful and gorgeously observed if sometimes oblique stories centered on the idea of appetites (their denial and their satisfaction) make up Gaston's (The Good Body
; Sex Is Red
; etc.) latest. In "The Alcoholist," a man with an...
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Bill Gaston, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-039411-0
Although a quick synopsis of Canadian writer Gaston's American debut might sound maudlin--a rootless minor-league hockey player contracts multiple sclerosis and goes home to make peace with the family he's neglected for years--the novel itself is...
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Carol Anshaw, Author, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Author, Bill Gaston, Author Tin House Books $18.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-9794198-0-5
Though it boasts a risque title and cunning cover art, the majority of the stories and essays collected here put the emphasis on the ""Me,"" rather than the ""Do."" Having first appeared in the literary journal Tin House, these pieces vary widely in
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Bill Gaston, Author . Raincoast $15.95 (452p) ISBN 978-1-55192-843-2
A search for the remote island village of Sointula, a "place of harmony" on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, drives Canadian novelist Gaston's latest. Spurred by the death of her first, long-ago lover, Claude, Evelyn Poole, the...
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Bill Gaston. Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada, $22 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-0-14-319241-1
Gaston, recipient of the 2003 Timothy Findley Prize, will thrill readers with suspense, peculiarity and carnage in his latest short fiction collection. The book's title is derived from the third story, "Any Forest Seen from Orbit." Reminiscent of D.H
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Bill Gaston. Douglas & McIntyre (PGW/Perseus, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $22.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-77162-171-7
Gaston (Juliet Was a Surprise), who received the Canadian Writers’ Trust Timothy Findley Award for his body of work in 2002, here collects 10 poignant and varied stories about characters who find reasons not to be happy. Each protagonist is deeply...
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