false <![CDATA[Kilter 55]]> 562372 2 <B>"The enormous inventiveness of these 55 fictions offers the reader an emotional and intellectual gourmet feast."&#151;2003 Giller Prize Jury.</B><BR><BR>A finalist for the 2003 Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious literary award, <I>Kilter</I> is a subtle, funny, ironic, and startling chronicle of contemporary life, full of individuals catching odd glimpses of themselves&#151;a young woman puzzles over the identity of her lost brother; a husband describes a sixteenth-century painting to explain his lover to his wife&#151;and of big ideas working themselves out in strange but revealing ways&#151;a dead man laments the suicide note he failed to write; a wife and husband disagree about the shape of the semen stain on their son's pajamas, he seeing it as an image of Jesus, she as the image of her dog as a puppy.<BR><BR>John Gould has updated and westernized the form of the palm-of-the-hand story, invented eighty years ago by Yasunari Kawabata, who wanted a way to write a fiction writer's poetry. In spare, elegant prose, Gould crafts quirky gems, compact fusions of humor and pathos. At the center of this multifaceted collection is a vision of human beings as paradoxical creatures, finite and haunted by infinite longings. In story after story, Gould locates the fulcrum on which a life tilts from kilter to off-kilter and back again. 549516 1 11 2005 Kilter: 55 Fictions total:19|5:6|4:5|3:8|2:0|1:0| 19 74 40 4 3 0 false false Wed May 20 14:10:55 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 16:29:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 17 20:47:41 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 14:47:15 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 18:09:43 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 22:17:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Aug 22 18:34:28 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 18:35:02 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Nov 05 16:27:39 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 16:27:39 -0800 2009 3 0 true false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Oct 29 18:21:54 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 18:22:12 -0700 2009 2 0 0 false false Wed Sep 16 09:11:17 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 09:11:17 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jul 05 01:00:07 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 01:00:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 23 22:35:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 22:35:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 21 16:42:35 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 16:42:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 20 13:54:17 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 13:54:17 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jun 17 10:18:06 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 10:18:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 15 09:50:04 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 19:45:21 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 09:50:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu May 14 12:33:13 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 12:33:13 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu May 14 12:13:17 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 12:13:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 14:51:41 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 14:51:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 23 22:08:12 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 22:08:15 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 17 14:13:09 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 14:13:09 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 12 12:48:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 06:53:20 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Dec 23 15:09:17 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 15:09:17 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1415226