The Old World and Other Stories

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Cary Fagan

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Paperback / softback

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These thirty-five brief stories - and the found photographs that inspired them - are by turns realistic and surreal, bloody and tender, delightful and appalling. Award-winning author Cary Fagan has created a mesmerizing series of narrative tales, giving readers a vivid peek into lives of strangers. A man hangs onto a runaway horse. A woman paints in the nude. A shop window advertising a sale on blankets hides much more behind it. A lone tombstone on a hill speaks of a years-long feud. The stories - capturing portraits, objects, moments in time - while dizzyingly varied, form a single image that, in the words of the author, "belong to one history, found in an album that might belong to any of us." Deftly marrying vision and language with memory and imagination, Fagan paints an intimate portrait of forgotten lives that is profound, generous, and highly entertaining.

Author Biography:

CARY FAGAN writes books for children and adults. He has won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children’s Literature, the Jewish Book Award, the IODE Jean Throop Book Award and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, among others. His picture books include A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, illustrated by Banafsheh Erfanian, and Son of Happy, illustrated by Milan Pavlović, which was named one of the Best Canadian Picture Books of 2020 by CBC Books. Cary lives with his family in Toronto.

Release date Australia

November 16th, 2017

Author

Cary Fagan

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

b&w images throughout

Pages

304

Dimensions

133x203x18

ISBN-13

9781487001469

Product ID

26765688

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