Scandal at the Alphorn Factory

New and Selected Short Fiction, 19842024

Gary Barwin

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Assembly Press
02 January 2025

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

A new collection of stories by Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Gary Barwin that puts the fab in fabulist.

Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 19842024 couples brand new and uncollected stories with selections of the most playful and ambitious of Barwin's previous collections, including Cruelty to Fabulous Animals, Big Red Baby, Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth, and I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 2511457.

Barwin's prose kicks against short fiction's more traditional forms: these are pieces that flirt with poetry and playwriting. Whole stories-and worlds-are packed into single compact paragraphs. There are narrators and fleas and lists and imperatives and Hitler's moustache and radiant happiness.

Known as a ""whiz-bang storyteller"" who can deliver magical, dream-like sequences and truisms about the human condition in the same paragraph, Barwin's trademark brilliance, wit, and originality are on display in this can't-miss collection of short fiction.

By: Gary Barwin
Imprint: Assembly Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm,
ISBN: 9781738009886
ISBN 10: 1738009882
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Gary Barwin is the author of 31 books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction and has published, performed and broadcast his work internationally. His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates won the Leacock Medal for Humour, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was longlisted for Canada Reads. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario and at garybarwin.com

Reviews for Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 19842024

"""Is Gary Barwin the Meryl Streep of Canadian Literature? Or the Stephen Curry? By which I mean: what range! These stories sound the depths of character, plot, style, and form with irreverent humour, musical language and boundless curiosity. So maybe he's our Jacques Cousteau—if the guy had stayed home, traded his submarine for a laptop computer, and made up stories about all the things he didn’t know.""—Pasha Malla, author of All You Can Kill"