Dead Voices

by F.G. Paci

Overview

Dead Voices is a collection of stories that are both seriously realistic and comically whimsical. They have everything from superheroes who get sick on words, to the appearance of dead playwrights, to the visit of saints and sinners from the past, to a hot stove discussion on hockey and love. They're about the modern mind-set and its technological marvels and the older attention to character and virtue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771833189
Publisher:	Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/01/2019
Series:	Essential Prose Series , #156
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

F.G. Paci was born in Italy and grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He was the Elia Chair writer-in-residence at York University and has an honorary degree from Laurentian University. He is the author of 13 novels, the last of which was The Son (Oberon, 2011). Among the novels he has published with Guernica are: Italian Shoes (2002), Hard Edge (2006), and Peace Tower (2009). His first collection of short stories, Playing To Win (Guernica), came out in 2012. He lives in Toronto with his wife and has one son.

Read an Excerpt

In Hot Stove they'd forget they were teachers, fathers, husbands, compromisers, bullshit artists, or whatever else they normally functioned as, and became soldiers, predators, hunters, warriors — a bunch of old-timers who had seen their glory years long ago and still laced up the skates for the love of the game.