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Will is Shane Neilson’s debut collection of short fiction.

The book ranges from straightforward East Coast depictions of alcoholism and frustrated farming told in dense, lyric prose, to experimental works that play overtly with language and form. In Will, a boy is beaten by his father; another father cares for his epileptic son; an anesthetist addicted to sevoflurane ponders the works of Michael Jackson; Vladimir Nabokov takes a writer-in-residence position at Memorial University of Newfoundland; and World War I poet John McCrae dies. And yes, there is a hockey story.

Individual stories have appeared widely in magazines including Queen’s Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, Geist, and The Canadian Medical Association Journal, among others.



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"Shane Neilson's WILL is bookish, brilliant, and bawdy. Read this book." -- Michael Winter
"A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson's work" -- Steven Heighton

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      Publisher: Great Plains Publications Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/2013
      ISBN13: 9781926531779, 978-1926531779
      ISBN10: 1926531779
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Will is Shane Neilson’s debut collection of short fiction.

      The book ranges from straightforward East Coast depictions of alcoholism and frustrated farming told in dense, lyric prose, to experimental works that play overtly with language and form. In Will, a boy is beaten by his father; another father cares for his epileptic son; an anesthetist addicted to sevoflurane ponders the works of Michael Jackson; Vladimir Nabokov takes a writer-in-residence position at Memorial University of Newfoundland; and World War I poet John McCrae dies. And yes, there is a hockey story.

      Individual stories have appeared widely in magazines including Queen’s Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, Geist, and The Canadian Medical Association Journal, among others.



      Trade Review
      "Shane Neilson's WILL is bookish, brilliant, and bawdy. Read this book." -- Michael Winter
      "A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson's work" -- Steven Heighton

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