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A Day Does Not Go by

A Day Does Not Go by

Johnston, Sean

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ISBN10: 0889711909
ISBN13: 9780889711907
Publisher: Nightwood Ed
Published: Sep 9 2002
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Johnston skillfully follows the twentieth-century realist tradition of stripping stories down to details and everyday conversations that represent accurate snippets of life, and he explores perception - our ability to discern between conclusions and reality, between misplaced trust and mirror-pane truth. In his unique stories, Jeff and Beth clumsily discuss how they should be reacting to finding a dead man, who is not actually dead; a married couple doubt the existence of their eight-year-old son enough to add their names to a school petition asking teachers and students to no longer refer to the boy... except as a myth.

Johnston masterfully mixes such stories and perspectives with short vignettes told directly from ground zero of a surreal, apparitional landscape. Without philosophical discourse or interrogation, these stories playfully prompt us to question our own realities. The debut of one of western Canada's most thoughtful and original new authors, A Day Does Not Go By realistically depicts the confusion brought about by crumbling or extinguished relationships, roles and identities.

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