<p><b>Shortlisted for the City of Hamilton book award</b></p> <p>At times comic, tender, dark, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin’s latest fiction collection marvels at the strangeness, charm, and beauty that is contemporary life in the quantum world.</p> <p>Ranging from short story to postcard fiction, Barwin’s stories are luminous, hilarious, and surprising. A billionaire falls in love with a kitchen appliance, a couple share a pair of legs, a pipeline-size hair is given the Nobel Prize only so that it can be taken away, a father remembers with tenderness the radiant happiness of his teenage child, trapped inside his body. As the <i>Utne Reader</i> said of his last collection, “what makes them so compelling is Barwin’s balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.”</p> <p>Praise for I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457</p> <p>“There’s so much to love in <i>I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457</i>. Each story is a portal into a wondrous and mysterious parallel world. Like the great U.S. poet, Russell Edson, Gary Barwin’s work inhabits a transcendent country, one in which surprise, delight, discovery, and, above all, gleeful imagination rule the day.” (M.A.C. Farrant, author of <i>The World Afloat</i> and <i>Darwin Alone in the Universe</i>)</p> <p>“These stories are as unexpected as they are beautiful. Each one will have you seeing the world in a slightly different way.” (Andrew Kaufman, author of <i>All My Best Friends are Superheroes</i> and <i>Born Weird</i>)</p>
<p><b>Shortlisted for the City of Hamilton book award</b></p> <p>At times comic, tender, dark, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin’s latest fiction collection marvels at the strangeness, charm, and beauty that is contemporary life in the quantum world.</p> <p>Ranging from short story to postcard fiction, Barwin’s stories are luminous, hilarious, and surprising. A billionaire falls in love with a kitchen appliance, a couple share a pair of legs, a pipeline-size hair is given the Nobel Prize only so that it can be taken away, a father remembers with tenderness the radiant happiness of his teenage child, trapped inside his body. As the <i>Utne Reader</i> said of his last collection, “what makes them so compelling is Barwin’s balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.”</p> <p>Praise for I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457</p> <p>“There’s so much to love in <i>I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457</i>. Each story is a portal into a wondrous and mysterious parallel world. Like the great U.S. poet, Russell Edson, Gary Barwin’s work inhabits a transcendent country, one in which surprise, delight, discovery, and, above all, gleeful imagination rule the day.” (M.A.C. Farrant, author of <i>The World Afloat</i> and <i>Darwin Alone in the Universe</i>)</p> <p>“These stories are as unexpected as they are beautiful. Each one will have you seeing the world in a slightly different way.” (Andrew Kaufman, author of <i>All My Best Friends are Superheroes</i> and <i>Born Weird</i>)</p>