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Now, in \u003ci\u003eQuicker Than The Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, Canada's poet of the streets turns his gaze inward, writing about the influences of early love, family tragedy, and the search for meaning in a world where \"the desolate things are mine.\"  A master of spare, razor-sharp language, Fiorito manages to strip sentiment from memory in order to find tenderness and enduring truth on the margins of the city.  He has never written more austerely or more beautifully.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49751315939601,"sku":"NGR9781550656367","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1550656368.jpg?v=1750894473"},{"product_id":"closer-we-are-to-dying-book-joe-fiorito-9780771031199","title":"The Closer We Are to Dying","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Closer We Are to Dying\u003c\/i\u003e is newspaper columnist Joe Fiorito's spectacular debut as a book writer. A natural story-teller, Fiorito's extraordinary talent is revealed in prose that is spare, tough, and tender. In this memoir of his family, he writes with a full heart, wielding language like a knife. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the 1950s in Fort William, Ontario, when Joe Fiorito was growing up, it was wrong to be poor and Italian, and risky to be bookish - and he was all of these. He was also marked as a member of a lively and infamous clan. Strangers could size him up at a glance and tell he was a Fiorito; Dusty's boy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryone knew Dusty. He was handsome and hard and hot-tempered. He was a man his son loved and loathed with equal fervour. And it is Dusty who occupies the heart of this book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA letter carrier, a small-town trombonist and occasional crooner, a heavy drinker, Dusty was both the keeper and maker of the family's many stories. At the end of his life, as Dusty lay dying in hospital, Joe sat with him at nights, listening one last time to the family legends, now burnished to a perfect lustre by repeated tellings - stories too fantastic to be fiction, too pointed to be entirely true. Stories narrated in exquisite style in \u003ci\u003eThe Closer We Are to Dying\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFiorito's striking talent is revealed both in his laconic prose and superlative story-telling, and in the affection and empathy of his vision. \u003ci\u003eThe Closer We Are to Dying\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful reminder that while only the powerful are remembered in the history books, the lives of the powerless can also be the stuff of enduring myths.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50364543795473,"sku":"CIN077103119XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/077103119X.jpg?v=1751295517"},{"product_id":"closer-we-are-to-dying-book-joe-fiorito-9780312261368","title":"The Closer We Are to Dying","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51329422229777,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51329424556305,"sku":"CIN0312261365A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52715989532945,"sku":"CIN0312261365VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312261365.jpg?v=1750941724"},{"product_id":"comfort-me-with-apples-book-joe-fiorito-9780771031243","title":"Comfort Me with Apples","description":"A literary syncopation on the theme of food, \u003ci\u003eComfort Me With Apples\u003c\/i\u003e earned Joe Fiorito rave reviews and enthusiastic fans when it was first published in 1994. One writer declared it was a small miracle of prose. A rich buffet of diverse short essays, \u003ci\u003eComfort Me With Apples\u003c\/i\u003e is about the appetites of the soul as well as the body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFiorito's range is wide: from the ingredients for the best chili dog in the world to the recipe for chicken soup for the courting soul; from the sharp portrait of a young boy's real hunger to the olfactory pleasures of a proper barbecue. His guests include an Inuk whom he takes to a sushi bar, an old man in pajamas, Julia Child, several daddies, a woman with a seductive appetite, and Hercules. 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Searing in subject matter, profound in meaning and sympathy, the poems are also wonderfully inventive and skillful in poetic form, while remaining casual, colloquial: the art of the street's voice. They're very short: shooting stars. But they constitute pinpoint windows on vast regions, unknown or ignored worlds: struggling people, obscurely dying people, their full reality: the body-and-soul details of pain and loss, endurance, heroism, joys, ugliness and beauty, in the rough corners, wastelands, and crevices where insulted, injured life manages to persist amid the expanse of glass, steel, and money.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53250606334225,"sku":"NLS9781550967708","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781550967708.jpg?v=1773530140"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-joe-fiorito.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}