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    Knife Party
    Knife Party
    Knife Party
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    Knife Party

    By Mark Anthony Jarman

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    The extraordinary "Knife Party" is from a new collection of stories by Mark Anthony Jarman titled Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, published in the spring of 2015. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoose Lane Editions
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    ISBN9780864927378
    Knife Party
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    Mark Anthony Jarman

    Mark Anthony Jarman is an award-winning Canadian author of six books of fiction and the critically acclaimed Ireland’s Eye. He has won a National Magazine Award in non-fiction, and his essays have appeared in the Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Hobart, the Barcelona Review, Vrig Nederland, and the Globe and Mail. He lives in Fredericton.

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      The biography of a woman who lived at the turn of the century in St Andrews, N.B. She was a true original and started a business which still exists today. Her drive, ambition, and success could not have been easy being a single woman "in trade" and she managed to shepherd the business through the depression and beyond. Started the business with $10 and within 5 years it was worth $12,000. Enjoyed anecdotes of people who knew her and the maritime expressions were reminiscent of my grandparents and father. Very enjoyable read.

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    Knife Party - Mark Anthony Jarman

    Knife Party

    For Goose Lane’s diamond anniversary — an array of six scintillating stories, gems mined from sixty years of Canada’s finest publishing and polished to the brightest hues. This multi-volume collection includes the following:

    Famed poet Alden Nowlan’s A Boy’s Life of Napoleon, adapted from his first novel, The Wanton Troopers, posthumously published by Goose Lane in 1988

    Douglas Glover’s strange and affecting

    Woman Gored by Bison Lives

    The Three Marys, a Christmas story with a bite, adapted by Lynn Coady from her debut novel, Strange Heaven

    Simran, a twisting tour-de-force by

    Shauna Singh Baldwin

    Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer’s stunning

    What Had Become of Us

    Knife Party, a wild tale of an Italian vacation gone off the rails, from Mark Anthony Jarman’s highly anticipated new collection, forthcoming in 2015

    Fiction by Mark Anthony Jarman

    My White Planet (2008)

    19 Knives (2000)

    New Orleans is Sinking (1998)

    Salvage King Ya! (1997)

    Dancing Nightly in the Tavern (1984)

    Knife Party will be published in 2015 by Goose Lane Editions in Mark Anthony Jarman’s forthcoming collection.

    Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. — Sophia Loren

    My wife is from Florida and is moving out of my house on the cold Canadian river, while I stay in Italy. She takes the frisky dog down to the freezing river and hits a ball into the water with a tennis racket. The moving van comes and the moving van goes. The river moves, and the faithful dog swims to retrieve the ball again and again, the dog floating in a state of grace.

    Our train speeds into the side of an Italian mountain, and we have no eyesight, we knife noisily into black tunnels and then shoot out again, our new eyes viewing the patient volcano and ancient sea.

    Our noisy engine halts iron wheels at seaside towns where families alight with beach towels and fashionable sunglasses and sunburns that still have

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