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Dickinson's first book, Fighting the Upstream, was described in The Globe & Mail as `truly memorable fiction'. With Blue Husbands, Dickinson returns with stories wilder and even funnier.
Although there is always an underlying melancholy in his writing which gives depth and bite to his humour, nearly all these stories resolve themselves into celebration. Sad, seedy, mad or battered as some of his characters are, Dickinson invests them all with dignity.
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Don Dickinson was born in 1947 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He has worked at jobs as varied as labourer, fitness instructor, and shepherd, and now teaches high school in Lillooet, British Columbia.
Blue Husbands won a 1991 B.C. Book Prize. It was also nominated for a Governor General's Award.
`There's a lot of wonderful moping being done in Don Dickinson's début, Blue Husbands. All but two of the collection's nine stories concern lonely men groping about for lost and distanced loves. Stunned by senseless deaths and divorces, Dickinson's husbands grieve in a strange and endearing assortment of forms: one swallows a chain, another talks to a crab, another attempts 300,000 push-ups on the front lawn of his ex-wife. What makes these stories brilliant -- and they are -- is that Dickinson crafts such daring, funny tales out of the tortured, melancholy lives of solitary men.'
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- PublisherPorcupine's Quill
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0889841233
- ISBN 13 9780889841239
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages128
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Original printed wraps. 128 pp. Octavo. Dickinson's well-crafted stories range in subject from a jilted husband's attempt to win his family back by breaking the world push-up record to the cause-and-effect relationship between one man's attempted suicide and the disabling of his rescuer's son. Although there is always an underlying melancholy in his writing which gives depth and bite to his humour, nearly all these stories resolve themselves into celebration. Sad, seedy, mad or battered as some of his characters are, Dickinson invests them all with dignity. Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures. Seller Inventory # 9780889841239
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