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Black Coffee Night
By Emily Schultz
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A postscript to the 1990s, Emily Schultz's stories feature male and female narrators exploring issues of fidelity and sexuality, the meaning of art love and work.
In the eleven stories that make up Black Coffee Night, a small-town superhero puts on his female counterpart's costume, the midnight laundromat beauty queen ages as surely as her sweaters collect more dog hair, and the little red-haired girl leaves before you can tell her you love her. Twin sisters look at life from the sidelines of the soccer field, and the future prom queen is deflowered two years before the twelfth-grade formal while the rest of the characters desperately search for dance partners for "Stairway to Heaven."
Black Coffee Night is a gritty, sexy and urbane collection that marks the appearance of an exciting and original voice in Canadian fiction.
Praise for Black Coffee Night:
"Black Coffee Night is an irreverent compilation of naughty tales about sex and friendships. This book contains some luscious, clever writing. Emily Schultz is a talented young writer embarking on what is sure to be a successful career."
— Natalee Caple, author of The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World and editor of The Notebooks
"For the day when this time and place have long been forgotten, I hope Emily Schultz's stories remain, for if they do, it won't so much matter that we and all our memories are dead. Her writing is so true and specific and speaks so soundly of this one little corner of the world that I recognize as mine too. I am relieved and startled to see it shining already as literature."
— Sheila Heti, author of The Middle Stories
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Fiction ·
Canada $19.95 · US $15.95 · UK £8.99 ·
Trade paperback
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1-894663-26-8
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158 pages
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6" x 9 "
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Insomniac Press
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