Begging Questions

[quote style=”boxed”]These stories – from a genuine master – were honed to perfection over the last 15 years, and engage the questions left hanging by public and private lives in a world whose foundations have shifted beyond prediction: questions of identity and belief; the emigré phantoms of memory; the frail oppositions of beauty to experience. Told in a language of brilliant power, his tales hold, not only by their enigmatic or dreamlike quality, but often with horror-laced intensity.” –Queen’s Quarterly[/quote]

[quote style=”boxed”]A writer at the peak of his form!” –Books in Canada[/quote]

[quote style=”boxed”]Implicit in his fiction is a reverence before both the miracle of consciousness and the miracle of nature.” –Times Literary Supplement[/quote]