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Books  Browse by Category Short Fiction Bix's Trumpet: and other stories
Bix's Trumpet: and other stories |
by Dave Margoshes
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ISBN 13: 978-1-897126-18-9
256 pages, paperback
Fall 2007 Short Fiction > audio
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about this bookDave Margoshes explores uncharted territory of the human heart in this thoroughly engaging new collection of short stories. Like a small boy fascinated with bugs and frogs, Margoshes, a journeyman story-writer, holds his characters up to the light and lets them squirm. By and large, these people are content with their ordinary, somewhat humdrum lives, until they are shaken by unexpected stress: A woman learns her likeable step-father was a secret pornographer; an overheard boast of infidelity sends a marriage and a life into freefall; a middle-aged musician, satisfied with his place in the orchestra’s second violin section, begins to re-examine his life when he discovers a long-buried family secret; winning a contest tests a friendship in an unexpected way; a surprise visit tilts a budding love affair over the edge; a teenaged girl finally comes to terms with grief when she swims in a lake named for her father. Bix’s Trumpet and other stories offers surprising glimpses into people’s lives, challenging us to observe the world, and life around us, a little closer.
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"These stories pulse with the details of everyday life. They are sensitive and affectionate and empathetic in the finest sense. . .[Dave Margoshes’s] writing is detailed and sensitive and his insights are strikingly memorable. This is a very fine book by a very fine writer.” —Alistair MacLeod
“Bix’s Trumpet is a terrific book of stories, a wry, wise, generous, and lovingly-detailed vision of the human comedy. Dave Margoshes is one of a kind, a wonderful writer, deeply congenial, one of my
favourites." —Douglas Glover, author of Elle The verdict is in: what the Saskatchewan Book Award jury had to say about Bix's: Margoshes is a guardian of the heart and a connoisseur of longing. His keen eye and ear bring these evocative stories to life. —Rita Donovan and William Deverell "This is the best of good, old-fashioned storytelling. Engaging yet comfortable, these are stories of us —the sorts of people who are trying. They are as surprised by life as we are."
—Jack Batten, Jeanette Lynes, and Susan Kerslake
awards Winner of the 2007 Book of the Year and the City of Regina Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards
Shortlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards for Best Short Fiction
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