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What Boys Like
Amy Jones
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Description for What Boys Like
Paperback. Brings together a motley assemblage of urban misfits and outsiders, and explores their love/hate relationship with their city and one another. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 271.
What Boys Like brings together a motley assemblage of urban misfits and outsiders, and explores their love/hate relationships with their city and one another. Jones's characters grapple with lust, love and loss with an unsentimental eye, while remaining open to the sharp-edged humour caused by the chaotic and random nature of life, and the absurdity of the world around them.
What Boys Like brings together a motley assemblage of urban misfits and outsiders, and explores their love/hate relationships with their city and one another. Jones's characters grapple with lust, love and loss with an unsentimental eye, while remaining open to the sharp-edged humour caused by the chaotic and random nature of life, and the absurdity of the world around them.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781897231630
SKU
V9781897231630
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
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99-15
About Amy Jones
Amy Jones: Originally from Halifax, Amy Jones is a graduate of the Optional Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at UBC. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in several Canadian publications, including The New Quarterly, Grain, Prairie Fire, Event, Room of One's Own, The Antigonish Review, and 08: Best Canadian Stories. In 2006, she was the winner of ... Read more
Reviews for What Boys Like
Story after story she's hauling out some new literary stunt, some new way to make her story enthrall you.
Salty Ink "Jones takes an unblinking look at a variety of social misfits and more run-of-the-mill damaged people, all trying to find their way...a brilliant collection"
The Chronicle Journal "When Jones hits her stride, she displays an incisive eye, a knack for poignancy, ... Read more
Salty Ink "Jones takes an unblinking look at a variety of social misfits and more run-of-the-mill damaged people, all trying to find their way...a brilliant collection"
The Chronicle Journal "When Jones hits her stride, she displays an incisive eye, a knack for poignancy, ... Read more