Resident Alien (Penguin Short Fiction) - Softcover

Blaise, Clark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140082344 ISBN 13: 9780140082340

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1986

Synopsis

Brief autobiographical essays accompany stories about an injured father, memories of childhood, a move from Pittsburgh to Montreal, and a troubled marriage

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In this seminal "journey into my obsessions with self and place," Blaise (Lusts, etc.t effectively presents his fictional Porter/Carrier stories between two autobiographical fragments. In the process he reshapes his tumultuous childhood and his development as a writer into the fabric of fiction and explores the powerful, symbiotic relationship between reality and the inventive imagination. ("Who or what to believe? . . . As I reach back into these events of 30 or more years ago, I'm aware that truth is simply a matter of framing and reframing.") The son of a feuding FrancoAnglo-Canadian couple who were constantly on the move in the U.S. and Canada, the author, a self-described "Peeping Tom of the Interstates and the Blue Highways" who "achieved my own identity . . . through the places I absorbed," infuses his rich, supple prose with the voice of "unhousement."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140082344
• ISBN 13: 9780140082340
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208