A Kiss is Still a Kiss
Auteur : Barry Callaghan
Date de publication : 1995
Éditeur : Little, Brown and Company
Nombre de pages : 370
Résumé du livre
From the author of the acclaimed Black Queen Stories and the winner of the 1993 Toronto Arts Foundation Award for Writing and Publishing comes a wonderful new collection of stories. These are twelve tales in Callaghan's raucous yet sensuous style, introducing us to people who seem alive on the page. We meet young Cindy Witchita, wo learns that happiness is over-rated; old Mildred Downs, who thinks that life in a hundred years could be beautiful; Albie the crossing guard, who sings to old desperadoes, and Willard Crowley, who makes contact with his dead wife by walkie-talkie. A Kiss is Still a Kiss is fiercely ironic in places, with prose that is pierced with both sadness and humour. It is shot through with the great lyrical beauty for which Barry Callaghan is renowned.