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Jason E. Rolfe
Goodreads Author
Born
in Guelph, Canada
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Alphonse Allais, Flann O'Brien, Daniil Kharms, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Rhy
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February 2012
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The Neo-Decadent Cookbook
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2020
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An Archive of Human Nonsense
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2017
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Synthetic Saints
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2012
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An Inconvenient Corpse
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2014
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Clocks
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2018
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The Many Lives and Countless Deaths of Daniil Ivanovich
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2021
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The Puppet-Play Of Doctor Gall
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2020
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Our World, Like a Charnel house (Infra-Noir #34)
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2023
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Invisible Influences
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2020
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Himmler's Ghost
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2013
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"Jason E. Rolfe has long been one of Canada's best-kept secrets, and for years, now, I have loved the melancholic wit, charm, and laughter of his short story collections.
TRIPLE OBSCURA ONE, a recent anthology from Gibbon Moon Books, reprints a few of " Read more of this review » |
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"Thematically, this felt a lot like a John Howard short story, incorporating a mystery related to architectural design. John does that kind of element really well with much of his works. Rolfe is new to me, but I really enjoyed it."
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“I wonder now… were my tears for Alex and Al and all the others who had gone and who were yet to go? Or was I weeping for myself…and those who would remain?”
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― And No Birds Sang
“The third time out he concluded that we were hunting cows.
That was a day that will live long in memory. Mutt threw himself into cow chasing with a frenzy that was almost fanatical. He became, in a matter of hours, a dedicated dog. It was a ghastly day, yet it had its compensations for Father. When we returned home that night, very tired, very dusty–and sans birds—he was able to report to Mother that her "hunting dog" had attempted to retrieve forty-three heifers, two bulls, seventy-two steers, and an aged ox belonging to a Dukhobor family.”
― The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
That was a day that will live long in memory. Mutt threw himself into cow chasing with a frenzy that was almost fanatical. He became, in a matter of hours, a dedicated dog. It was a ghastly day, yet it had its compensations for Father. When we returned home that night, very tired, very dusty–and sans birds—he was able to report to Mother that her "hunting dog" had attempted to retrieve forty-three heifers, two bulls, seventy-two steers, and an aged ox belonging to a Dukhobor family.”
― The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
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