Description
The best collected short fiction of Mark Anthony Jarman published over the last four decades.
Praise for Mark Anthony Jarman
“One of Canada’s most accomplished prose stylists, with an affection for jazzy rhythms and oblique angles … the writing will be familiar to aficionados of the author’s earlier work—the trilling sentences, the insouciant alliteration and assonance, the rococo metaphors, the sudden shifts in tone from light to dark, humour to startling violence.”
—Globe and Mail
“Jarman’s descriptions of Italy’s managed chaos of ruins and tourist traps and crowded cities are witty, evocative and, when he turns his attention to the displaced peoples from Africa, the Middle East and the Baltic states living rough in the dirty streets, often quite moving.”
—Toronto Star
“… as much travelogue, novel in hiding and prose poem as it is a collection of stand-alone stories. In fact, many of the stories do not stand alone. Rather, they lean on each other, interweave and inform each other, sharing a narrator, point of view, main characters and setting.”
—Atlantic Books Today
“Jarman pulls off some ferociously good writing.”
—The Winnipeg Review
“Jarman’s prose has the momentum of travel, with vivid images and flashes of understanding about another way of life.”
—Foreword Reviews
“Jarman’s collection is called 19 Knives, and it is brilliant. The writing is extraordinary, the stories are gripping, it is something new.”
—A.S. Byatt, The Guardian
