Böcker av Tom Abray

Edward Tilman wants to write a novel about a filmmaker, but he doesn't know enough about making movies. His research launches him on a creative adventure that strains his family bonds, stalls his career and lures him to other countries--toting a camera bag and a laptop computer. Tom Abray's short story collection, Pollen, was nominated for the Quebec Writer's Federation Fiction Award, as well as the Relit Award. The Montreal Review of Books observed that Abray's novel Where I Wanted to Be "consistently teeters on the edge of a grand dénouement". This precarious edge runs like an existential faultline through Abray's fiction.

"Edited by Kenneth Radu"--Title page verso.

With wit and sensitivity, these tales portray moments of suffering, confusion, and discovery and introduce the reader to worlds as widely various as Japanese kite-making, bees, daycare, alcohol, and motorcycle maintenance. Abrays stories push full-on into the world of obsessions. A new vacuum cleaner becomes a pawn in a just-ended relationship. Riding-a-motorbike becomes the way brothers bond over their troubled relationship with their father. A wise naturalist takes the reader on a comic tour of an animal-filled mall, and a bee infestation in a kitchen forces three urban apartment-sharing youths to suddenly confront nature and their own changing relationship.