{"product_id":"this-time-that-place-clark-blaise-9781771964890","title":"This Time, That Place: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimmer cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries,\" writes Margaret Atwood, \"read the stories of Clark Blaise.\" \u003ci\u003eThis Time, That Place\u003c\/i\u003e draws together twenty-four stories that span the entirety of Blaise's career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across place and time, through and between languages--from Florida's Confederate swamps, to working-class Pittsburgh, to Montreal and abroad--they demonstrate Blaise's profound mastery of the short story and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identity as fallacy, fable, and dream. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Time, That Place: Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Clark Blaise as one of the best and most enduring masters of the form--on either side of our shared borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clark Blaise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771964898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771964890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/09\/2022","brand":"Clark Blaise","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077252542719,"sku":"9781771964890","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_035b681d-2da0-4849-912e-55e8aca47c11.jpg?v=1685469006","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-time-that-place-clark-blaise-9781771964890","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}