{"product_id":"selected-stories-3","title":"Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimmer cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries,\" writes Margaret Atwood, \"read the stories of Clark Blaise.\" \u003ci\u003eThis Time, That Place\u003c\/i\u003e draws together twenty-four stories that span the entirety of Blaise''s career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across place and time, through and between languages—from Florida''s Confederate swamps, to working-class Pittsburgh, to Montreal and abroad—they demonstrate Blaise''s profound mastery of the short story and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identity as fallacy, fable, and dream. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Time, That Place: Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Clark Blaise as one of the best and most enduring masters of the form—on either side of our shared borders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312994984318,"sku":"NW9781771964890","price":13.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781771964890.jpg?v=1778576109","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/selected-stories-3","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}