The Old World and Other Stories

Cary Fagan

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House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
19 October 2017

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

"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."

By: Cary Fagan
Imprint: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 317g
ISBN: 9781487001469
ISBN 10: 1487001460
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 19 October 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Old World and Other Stories

What a dazzlingly imaginative thing to do - Cary Fagan has taken a group of orphaned photographs from the past and turned them into a cabinet of wonders! Inventive, satisfying, and deft, The Old World gets right to the heart of the storytelling craft. * Marni Jackson, author of Don't I Know You? * I absolutely loved this collection of very short stories inspired by a series of wonderful found photographs. Cary Fagan has a real ear for dialogue and a way of making each perfectly formed vignette surprising, whether that's taking a surreal turn in 'We Have to Be Careful,' introducing the macabre in 'Who I've Come For,' or quietly breaking my heart, in 'Where We Are Now.' * Claire Fuller, author of Swimming Lessons *