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Christian Fennell

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Born
in Muskoka, Canada
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Sheila Watson, The Double Hook.

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June 2020

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Torrents of Our Time
"Whatever expectations one might have of a book of dark, realist short stories set in rural America, this collection defies them, and instead weaves an elegant song of sadness, dark humour, and strangeness." - Neon Books UK

The Fiddler in the Night
"In essence, the author has created a work of art in word form." - The US Review of Books

LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America
"A raw inspection of the violence and confrontations of both a nation and the individual." - Midwest Book Review

"A violent fucking poet." - Josip Novakovich

"Words used to be art. In their creation. In the act. And thus the words were art in their very being. Forget the reader. Just don't forget the impetus. Christian Fennell never did. One of the rare few."
- Shaan
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Average rating: 4.55 · 51 ratings · 33 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Fiddler in the Night

4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions
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Torrents of Our Time: Twent...

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What I Know About the Human...

4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings3 editions
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LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings5 editions
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Torrents of Our Time by Christian  Fennell
"This collection of Christian Fennells' short stories had me enthralled.

He crosses lives from farms to cities, young to old and male or female.

Some of these short stories are reflective of nightmares. The type you wake up from and are glad your brain " Read more of this review »
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Cold Chaos by Nathalie Guilbeault
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COLD CHAOS, Stories from a North, by Nathalie Guilbeault

Fourteen stories that explore with honesty, humour, and insight a young woman's coming-of-age in a work camp of mostly men in the James Bay region of northern Quebec. Auto-fictive in nature, Gui
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The Fiddler in the Night by Christian  Fennell
"I found this writing extremely difficult to read; when I could decipher the prose, I just found it depressing, but most of the time I was just confused. Maybe it’s just too high-brow for me? I don’t think so, though—I have a bachelors degree and read" Read more of this review »
The Fiddler in the Night by Christian  Fennell
"(This is a fair review based on an eARC provided by Reedsy.)

The Fiddler in the Night is the kind of book that hooks and holds your attention from the very first handful of sentences. They are stark, immediate, and darkly poetic. The journey is at tim" Read more of this review »
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Quotes by Christian Fennell  (?)
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“For I am you, torn from our scars.”
Christian Fennell, What I Know About the Human Race: A Collection of Writing

“What I want, is contentment, without meaning, in honest work, and in life too.”
Christian Fennell

“It's always the miles, not time ...”
Christian Fennell, What I Know About the Human Race: A Collection of Writing

“I am a witness, and I am a participant, and yet, life suggests, there is more to it then just that. Find it.”
Christian Fennell, Torrents of Our Time: Twenty-Two Stories

“Great literature is written from the pulse of blood running through the veins of thought, and not by the meaning of it.”
Christian Fennell

“There is a danger in creating our pasts more than we lived them.”
Christian Fennell, In a Small Town

“In her future, will be these tears remembered.”
Christian Fennell, Tincture Journal, Issue Two, Winter 2013

“Read. Read a lot. Go home. Be quiet. Write. Write some more. It will soon be discovered if you are a writer.”
Tennessee Williams

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