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Cover Before Striking (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781459729520)
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xThe most common phrase in print is "cover before striking," a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers.
Uppal's characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. The pyromaniac at the heart of the title story -- winner of the Gloria Vanderbilt Short Fiction Prize -- desperately uses fire to reconnect with lost lovers and family members. In "Vertigo," an injured Olympic athlete becomes a research guinea pig in a surreal scientific experiment. In "The Boy Next Door," a teenager recounts how her mother took her and fled Canada for Brazil, along with the local Catholic priest.
Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire.
Author: Priscila Uppal
ISBN-10: 1459729528
ISBN-13: 9781459729520
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2015
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 01/01/2015 pg. 40
Publishers Weekly 02/09/2015
Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 81
Uppal's characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. The pyromaniac at the heart of the title story -- winner of the Gloria Vanderbilt Short Fiction Prize -- desperately uses fire to reconnect with lost lovers and family members. In "Vertigo," an injured Olympic athlete becomes a research guinea pig in a surreal scientific experiment. In "The Boy Next Door," a teenager recounts how her mother took her and fled Canada for Brazil, along with the local Catholic priest.
Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire.
Author: Priscila Uppal
ISBN-10: 1459729528
ISBN-13: 9781459729520
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2015
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 01/01/2015 pg. 40
Publishers Weekly 02/09/2015
Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 81
By Priscila Uppal
xPriscila Uppal is an internationally acclaimed poet, fiction writer, and York University professor. She is the author of The Divine Economy of Salvation and To Whom It May Concern. Her memoir, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize and the Governor General's Award. Priscila lives in Toronto. For more information visit priscilauppal.ca.
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