The Beggar’s Garden by Michael Christie
The Beggar's Garden by Michael Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins Canada
Author Site: Michael Christie Dot Net
ISBN-13: 978-1554688296
Price: $24.99
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The Recommend
Witty, complex, unpredictable – yet full and satisfying short stories.
The characters from different stories could easily know, or know of, one another – and sometimes do stumble across one another.
They occupy the same cityscape – downtown eastside Vancouver – yet their lives have little in common but loneliness.
The lady dialing 911 for love with all the wrong paramedics, the crack-addicted mathematician scoring rock for Robert Oppenheimer, the single condo-dwelling web designer more easily accepting the flaws of his Andalucian woolfhound than those of human companions – all serve Christie well as he masterfully illustrates the interwoven highs and lows of urban isolation.
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Hello, Chris
Chris Benjamin is the critically-acclaimed author of Drive-by Saviours, a novel, and Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada.
His short fiction and essays have been anthologized and appeared in numerous Canadian literary journals. He’s also a freelance journalist and columnist and has written for The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, CBC Online, This Magazine, Now Magazine, The Chronicle Herald, VoicePrint Canada, Arts East, East Coast Kitchen Party, OpenFile, Z Magazine, and a bunch of others.
He likes his family – the humans and the cats – more than anything and is pretty excited for the arrival of his second child in April.
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