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Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa
These eight stories reveal a world that’s both recognizable and strange: cities of anxiety and violence, where quiet inhabitants lead outwardly banal lives that conceal sinister interiors. The premises, both fantastic and surreal, are also eerily plausible; they often follow the logic of dreams where the real can appear in disguise. Though geographically rooted, the setting – from Ottawa to Toronto and the South of France – take on an ephemeral dimension: the geography is of the subconscious.
André Alexis is a Trinidadian-Canadian author and playwright.
Other publications from this author include:
- The Night Piece: Collected Stories (2020)
- Days by Moonlight (2019)
- The Hidden Keys (2016)
- Fifteen Dogs (2015)
- Pastoral (2014)
- Beauty and Sadness (2010)
- Asylum (2008)
- Lambton Kent (1999)
- Childhood (1998)