Small Accidents

Andrew Gray

Journey Prize finalist Andrew Gray debuts 12 unforgettable stories--probing portraits of outsiders and lost souls who worship at the altar of medical science while secretly praying for redemptive love. From a couple whose marriage has been fractured by a car accident to a lonely surgeon who falls in love with a comatose patient, Gray's characters brace themselves for uncertain and vaguely threatening futures. Roaming from Canada to Fiji to Australia, these stories glimpse a not-so-distant future, offering a healthy dose of preventative medicine while opening new frontiers of the imagination. Gray unveils unlikely heroes hopeful in the face of extinction, redeemed by their longing to connect not with the next world but with this one.

Andrew Gray's stories have appeared in Prairie Fire, Event, Grain, Fiddlehead and Chatelaine. He was nominated for the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2000 and has twice been shortlisted for the CBC/Saturday Night Literary Award. He is the coordinator of UBC's Booming Ground. He lives in Vancouver, B.C.

Raincoast Books
Available: 09/24/01
5 3/8 x 8 · 200 pages
978-1-55192-508-0
CDN $19.95 · pb

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