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His well-known scatological realism, exuberant violence, and dark, unsettling humour give his unique version of history a thoroughly modern chill.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49520098083089,"sku":"GOR013353037","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49636746952977,"sku":"GOR005799074","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51828497219857,"sku":"CIN0864924925G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52506534281489,"sku":"CIN0864924925VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0864924925.jpg?v=1781778225"},{"product_id":"savage-love-book-douglas-glover-9780864929013","title":"Savage Love","description":"An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013 A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013 A Quill \u0026amp; Quire Best Book of 2013 Longlisted, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award  Savage Love marks the long-awaited literary return of one of Canada's most lauded and stylistically brilliant authors. Slyly holding forth with subversive wit, Glover skewers every conventional notion we've ever held about that cultural\u0026amp;emotional institution of love we are instructed to hold dear.   Peopled with forensic archaeologists, members of ancient tribes, horoscope writers, dental hygienists, butchers — Glover's stories are of our time yet timeless; spectacular fables that stand in any era, any civilization. Whether we be sexually ambiguous librarians or desperadoes of the most despicable kind, Glover exposes the humanity lurking behind our masks, and the perversities that underlie our actions.   Absurd, comic, dream-like, deeply affecting (on the molecular level): these stories revel in inventiveness yet preserve a strict adherence to the real. Glover directs his focus to moments when things seem too incredible to be supported, pointing us to truths that exhibit human nature in contexts we all recognize.   Savage Love marks the return of a master, with laugh-out-loud stories of the best kind, often completely unexpected, rife with moments of tragedy or horror. 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Following on the heels of his widely acclaimed comic novel, The South Will Rise at Noon, Douglas Glover's new collection smashes all the fictional moulds.  Urbane, stylish, and off-beat, the stories in this collection touch the lives of an astonishing array of characters whose common experience is of a world that is wayward yet full of marvels: a born-again Christian from Kentucky who loses his memory and ends up finding true love in glitzy Bel Air; two women who fall in love only to be parted when one dies of cancer; a man who goes to live in a cardboard box when his wife leaves him for the manager of a Toys R Us store; an eighteenth-century Canadian pioneer who believes he is being persecuted by witches.  This is sophisticated fiction at its best. A maximalist writer of ideas, he packs his sentences with energy, exuberant imagery and amazing turns of thoughts.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50017294876945,"sku":"GOR013837173","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0864921365.jpg?v=1777543248"},{"product_id":"life-and-times-of-captain-n-book-douglas-glover-9780864922977","title":"The Life and Times of Captain N.","description":"Douglas Glover's acclaimed novel The Life and Times of Captain N. is now available in a GLE Library edition. Originally published by McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart, the novel was acclaimed by the most respected critics in Canada and the US, and compelled The Toronto Star's Philip Marchand to call Glover \"one of the most important Canadian writers of his generation.\"   Set on the Niagara frontier in the final days of the American Revolution, The Life and Times of Captain N. sees the revolutionary new world order from the standpoint of the losers. Hendrick Nellis, a Tory guerrilla, has also been a redeemer of whites abducted by Indians. His son Oskar finds himself sometimes allied with the Indians, sometimes at war with them. Hendrick kidnaps Oskar for King George's army, and Oskar, haunted by dreams and by books, is the teller of the tale. The book he intends to write is sketched out in his letters to George Washington and in the signs tattooed on his skin as mementos of his personal Indian wars.   The Life and Times of Captain N. trespasses into the no-man's-land where the delirium of combat drives races, genders, languages, and ideas into a primeval frenzy. Master of the psyche's primitive depths, Douglas Glover draws the reader into a violent and erotic emotional whirlpool. Some of the incidents in The Life and Times of Captain N. are based on the lives of the real Hendrick Nellis and his family, and, says Glover, \"I have no doubt their descendents and relatives on both sides of the border will find much to complain of.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50365475258641,"sku":"CIN0864922973G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0864922973.jpg?v=1781778802"},{"product_id":"savage-love-book-douglas-glover-9780864928511","title":"Savage Love","description":"The Globe and Mail Top 100 Quill \u0026amp; Quire Book of the Year Amazon.ca Editors' Pick, Top 100 Now magazine, Top 10 Books Chatelaine, Favourite Books of 2013  \"This was, hands down, the best book I read in 2013.\" — Steven W. Beattie,The National Post   The return of Douglas Glover, one of Canada's most lauded and brilliant authors.   \"Douglas Glover, the mad genius of Can Lit.\" — Caroline Adderson, The Globe and Mail   Savage Love shatters then transforms every conventional notion we've ever held about that cultural-emotional institution we call love.   \"The most stylish, adventurous fiction this country has ever seen.\" — Quill \u0026amp; Quire   Absurd, comic, dream-like and deeply affecting, Glover's stories are of our time yet timeless, spectacular fables that stand in any era, any civilization.   \"Eclectic and obsessive, abrasive and majestic.\" — Los Angeles Review of Books   Savage Love exposes the humanity lurking behind our masks, the perversities that underlie our actions. 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Glover's brilliant accomplishment resides in his ability to seduce the reader with his own stunning prose and penetrating insight, while also creating the means for anyone to see into Cervantes's genius.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50406283477265,"sku":"CIN1564784045G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037247439121,"sku":"NIN9781564784049","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1564784045.jpg?v=1751374443"},{"product_id":"erotics-of-restraint-book-douglas-glover-9781771962919","title":"The Erotics of Restraint","description":"Why do we read? What do we cherish in a book? What is the nature of a masterpiece? What do Alice Munro, Albert Camus, and the great Polish experimentalist Witold Gombrowicz have in common? In the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Kundera, Douglas Glover’s new essay collection fuses his long experience as an author with his love of philosophy and his passion for form. Call it a new kind of criticism or an operator’s manual for readers and writers, The Erotics of Restraint extends Glover’s long and deeply personal conversation with great books and their authors. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his fiction, he dissects narrative and shows us how and why it works, why we love it, and how that makes us human. Erudite and obsessively detailed, inventive, confessional, and cheeky, these essays offer a brilliant clarity, a respite in an age of doubt. 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Urbane, stylish and slightly off-beat, the stories touch on the lives of a wide variety of human beings, whose only shared experience is the age in which they happen to meet: an abbot and a tramp sharing a seat on a Mexican train, a retarded farm boy and his incontinent dog, alienated singles in the American southwest, North Americans living--and dying--in an Indian ashram.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52689747476753,"sku":"NLS9780889222281","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780889222281.jpg?v=1762336142"},{"product_id":"16-categories-of-desire-book-douglas-glover-9780864923141","title":"16 Categories of Desire","description":"Douglas Glover's collection of stories mezmerizes like no other. A sheer tour-de-force, the collection features eleven new stories that demonstrate that Glover is capable of writing like no other writer. 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Occasionally scabrous, horrifically funny, intermittently appalling, and wildly erotic, the stories in this collection bring to life a world in time, irony and desire prevail.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53047288267025,"sku":"CIN0864923147G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780864923141.jpg?v=1774518947"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-douglas-glover.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}