Getting lucky

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Matt Cohen, the highly praised author of the award-winning and bestselling növel Elizabeth and After now brings us stories that are by turns irreverent, ironic and unsettling in his first collection of short fiction in over a decade.
The ten stories in Getting Lucky take us from Paris to Moscow to Montreal to Guatemala to Ontario cottage country, drawing us into the lives of people who, üke the settings, rangé from the ordinary to the larger-than-life, from a night-school English teacher and a modest filmmaker to Stephen Leacock, Napoleon and Dostoyevsky. At the heart of all these stories are common themes of death and love, betrayal and trust. With a clear-eyed affection and a wonderful empathy for the wandering souls who populate his stories—as they cling to talismans Üke a cowboy shirt, a chenille bedspread, a maternal dog and a 1953 classic Ford—he causes us to look at them, and the worlds they inhabit, in unexpected ways. In his darkly comic, wholly originál manner, he draws... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Matt Cohen, the highly praised author of the award-winning and bestselling növel Elizabeth and After now brings us stories that are by turns irreverent, ironic and unsettling in his first collection of short fiction in over a decade.
The ten stories in Getting Lucky take us from Paris to Moscow to Montreal to Guatemala to Ontario cottage country, drawing us into the lives of people who, üke the settings, rangé from the ordinary to the larger-than-life, from a night-school English teacher and a modest filmmaker to Stephen Leacock, Napoleon and Dostoyevsky. At the heart of all these stories are common themes of death and love, betrayal and trust. With a clear-eyed affection and a wonderful empathy for the wandering souls who populate his stories—as they cling to talismans Üke a cowboy shirt, a chenille bedspread, a maternal dog and a 1953 classic Ford—he causes us to look at them, and the worlds they inhabit, in unexpected ways. In his darkly comic, wholly originál manner, he draws us in, moves and surprises us, makes us laugh, and reveals the many sides of his extraordinary imagination.
Shortly before his death in December 1999, Matt Cohen won the Govenor General's Award for his növel Elizabeth and Afier and the Harbourfront Festival Prize in honour of his life as a writer. His previous növel, Last Seen, was a finalist for both the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award, and was chosen by Margaret Atwood as Best Book of 1996 {Macleans). In 1998 he received the Toronto Arts Award for Writing. He is the author of thirteen novels as well as poetry, collections of short stories, books for children and works of translation from French to English. Matt Cohen lived with his family in Toronto. Vissza