Magnetic Dogs is a collection of short stories that examines how displaced individuals
those who have been snatched out of their time and place
struggle to adapt and reinvent themselves in an entirely new context or re-establish themselves in their former situations. In stories that are factual fiction, Meyer examines the composition of Gabriel Faur's haunting ""Cantique de Jean Racine,"" the 1960s 'scoop' of Indigenous children from Manitoulin Island, the missing diaries of Lewis Carroll that save that author from the charges of child molestation that ruined his career as an academic, the true story of a shade of red and Seventh Century Chinese exploration of the North Atlantic, and the origins and ramifications of a haunting Aztec form of music, borrowed by J.S. Bach, the 'chaconne.'
In these stories Meyer constantly questions the ways our perceptions of the past might have been different had small events transpired to make them so.
By:
Bruce Meyer Imprint: Guernica Editions,Canada Country of Publication: Canada Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 127mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 285g ISBN:9781771837491 ISBN 10: 1771837497 Series:Essential Prose Series Pages: 100 Publication Date:06 February 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Bruce Meyer is author of more than sixty books. He lives in Barrie, Ontario and teaches at Georgian College.
