Description
“Engaging, stirring, and hard to put down.”—The New York Times Book Review
First published in 1979, Lunar Attractions is the story of David Greenwood, a whimsical boy from the Florida backwoods whose shocking sexual awakening propels him into the world of murder and extortion that roils beneath the surface of 1950s America.
Praise for Clark Blaise
Award Recipient from the Academy of Arts & Letters
Officer of the Order of Canada
“The elegant stories in The Meagre Tarmac constitute a warning of sorts … the old tables are turning.”—Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books
“Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.”
—Quill & Quire
“On the leading edge of world literature.”
—John Barber, Globe and Mail
“The Meagre Tarmac is a naked instance of appropriation of voice—a literary felony justified in this case by the results.”
—Philip Marchand, National Post
“Not to be forgotten … is Clark Blaise’s collection The Meagre Tarmac, wherein a writer’s writer excelled himself and got more attention than he has received in a long time, though still not as much as he deserves.”—Ian McGillis, Gazette
“You know it’s going to be a stellar year for fiction when Clark Blaise publishes something. The Meagre Tarmac … demonstrates yet again that Blaise is one of the continent’s master authors.”—Uptown
“What holds the collection together is Blaise’s mastery of the short story, his ability to give us a whole personality and the sensuous particularity of lived experiences in a handful of pages.”
—Steven Hayward, Globe and Mail
