Bottle Talk: Short Short Fiction - Softcover

Rivard, Ken

9780887533716: Bottle Talk: Short Short Fiction

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088753371X ISBN 13: 9780887533716

Publisher: Black Moss Pr, 2002

Bottle Talk is Ken Rivard's sixth book and is a substantial collection of short fiction (monologues) exploring alcoholic behavior. Some of the monologues are heart wrenching, some are believable and incredible, others are angry and hilarious. Some are so tragic that they bend back on themselves and become comedy. All are obsessed with self and are unvarnished explorations of the insanity that accompanies alcohol abuse. Bottle Talk should be read by anyone who is curious about compulsive behavior and who has been exposed to alcohol or perhaps, alcohol abuse. The book looks at the realities when alcohol consumption crosses that line of social drinking and becomes an illness.

Bottle Talk demonstrates how alcoholism is an allergy of the body and a mental obsession. The stories will reach into corners of all reader's hearts and heads. Ken Rivard's five books are Kiss Me Down To Size, (1983), Frankie's Desires (1987), If She Could Take All These Men (1995), Mom, The School Flooded (1996) and Skin Tests (2000) which was a finalist for both The Writers Guild of Alberta Short Fiction Award (2001) and The City of Calgary/W.O. Mitchell Award for Best Book (2001). Ken's work has also appeared in dozens of national and international publications and on the CBC.

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About the Author:

Calgary resident Ken Rivard writes both adult literary fiction and children's literature. He is the author of eight books and his work has appeared in dozens of regional and national publications and on the CBC. Ken was nominated in 2005 for the inaugural Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Award. His publications have been finalists for the Writers Guild of Alberta, Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction in 1996, 2001, 2003 and 2005. One of his books, Skin Tests, also published by Black Moss was a finalist for The City of Calgary , W.O. Mitchell Award in 2001. He has presented many successful writing workshops across Canada and has worked as a Writer-in-Residence for both The Calgary Public Library and The Writers Guild of Alberta. He has read in cities across Canada including Victoria, Comox, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal.

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