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<p>The year is 1964 and first-time film director Alan Schneider is about to embark on a project combining the talents of Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett.

<p>Dodging down back-alleys in bomb-torn Beirut. Wheeling past God and traffic in Mombassa, Kenya.

<p><i>Atomic Storybook</i> is a novel about a young painter named Owen who is regularly abducted by beings he calls “the space pricks.” These otherworldly visitors perform experim

<p>Kobzar Literary Award, Finalist</p> <p>Eric Hoffer Award, Shortlist</p> <p>City of Victoria Book Prize, Finalist</p> <p>Vancouver, summer 1962.

<p>Winner of the W.O.

<p>Winner, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize</p> <p>Finalist, Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction</p> <p>Nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian No

<p>In prose that’s as sharp as broken glass and shot through with poetry, Teresa McWhirter unlocks the extraordinary subculture of urban adults in their twenties and early thirties.