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Whatever Happens
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By Tim Conley
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Whatever Happens is a collection of stories for people who feel that reality is not the best deal going. Tim Conley explores the fragility of our perceptions as well as the illusions that we so badly need. Sometimes spare, these nineteen stories move between the obsessive and the disinterested, the extraordinary and the humdrum.
In "Means to an End," a man who has not quite come to the end of his rope meets a woman who wants to borrow it; in "Constellation," an unforeseen meteorite destroys an astrologists' convention; a taciturn botanist confronts his unfaithful wife in "The Greenhouse Effect"; and in "Last One In," an argument about which man has the better sense of hearing ends in disaster.
Influenced by — but expanding upon — the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Queneau, and the European avant-garde, Conley's work combines realism with metaphysical concerns to create a comedic, yet always striking, first collection of fictions.
Advance praise for Whatever Happens:
"A clever, inventive, immensely appealing collection."
— Barbara Gowdy, author of The Romantic and We So Seldom Look on Love
"Tim Conley's characters question the boundaries of what can be known — and challenge the reader with the implications of living in an unknowable world. His stories tell us again that the silences are often the loudest notes in the aria. A welcome new voice with a unique vision."
— Michael Bryson, The Danforth Review
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Fiction / Short Stories ·
Canada $21.95 · US $16.95 · UK £9.95 ·
Trade paperback
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1-897178-13-1
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184 pages
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6" x 9 "
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Insomniac Press
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