White Lies

Seán Virgo has a very special place among Canada’s younger prose writers. There is a breadth of vision in his work, an understanding of the nuances of emotion. The ten stories in this collection are set in Canada and abroad, and they are marked by a distinctive prose style, a care for detail and a lyric flow of words. The stories deal with a variety of places and situations; Indians on the west coast, a lover in Paris, old soldiers, wanderers on the road, newlyweds. Les Rites won the CBC national story competition in 1979, and Interact won the BBC national story competition in 1980. For Seán Virgo, who is also a prize-winning poet, this is his first book of fiction.