{"product_id":"meteor-storm-wayne-tefs-9780888013446","title":"Meteor Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeteor Storm is populated with men--fathers, brothers, uncles--who struggle with the missteps in their pasts and endure, sometimes with resignation, sometimes with a puzzled and angry dissatisfaction, their present lives.\u003cbr\u003eSet in the 1960s and 70s, many of the stories in Meteor Storm revolve around Red Rock, Ontario, a mining town where it is never easy come and easy go. The narrators of these 14 tales are in transition to adulthood, where the questions of what masculinity is, or needs to be, in the modern world are at are presented, in stark and often violent ways.\u003cbr\u003eIn \"Sunrise\" the calm of an early morning is disturbed by distraught young man bringing news of two horrible deaths. \"Walleyes\" recounts how a lazy vacation afternoon among friends can devolve to the cusp of violence. And in \"Red Rock and After\" (winner of a Canadian Magazine Fiction Prize and a Journey Prize finalist) a family suffers through a string of bankruptcies, but retains their optimism about the future.\u003cbr\u003eTefs's writing style is spare, direct, and reflective and he offers a unique view of where hard-edged men crash into the limits of their power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne Tefs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0888013442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780888013446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turnstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Wayne Tefs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483735601407,"sku":"9780888013446","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1fc1ddb0-102a-40fd-8b4b-e134a9257db2.jpg?v=1778040315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/meteor-storm-wayne-tefs-9780888013446","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}