{"product_id":"9780889224513","title":"And Other Stories","description":"About 10 years ago, George Bowering and Linda Hutcheon came up with the idea for a short fiction collection called \u003ci\u003eLikely Stories: A Postmodern Sampler\u003c\/i\u003e. It was a great idea at a time when a lot of people were still trying to figure out what “postmodern” actually meant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat fine collection of stories has now gone out of print, and George Bowering has put together a new collection of Canadian short fiction that takes the theme of postmodernity one step further. \u003ci\u003eAnd Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e offers not just more stories of difference, of other-ness and the race, gender, class, and politics of the other, but stories where our most talented writers become, and reflect on being, other(s).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so, in spite of postmodern theorists trying to hammer home to us that there is no universal self, no universal truth, this collection brings into question whether or not there might actually be something universal after all—even if it is only our (temporary) experience of being an other. There is always only Our Story, \u003ci\u003eAnd Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, in this case by:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGail Scott, Matt Cohen, Suzette Mayr, M.A.C. Farrant, Timothy Findley, Dionne Brand, Candas Jane Dorsey, Audrey Thomas, Sheila Watson, Dany Laferrière, George Bowering, Leon Rooke, David Arnason, Clint Burnham, Hiromi Goto, Guillermo Verdecchia, André Alexis, George Elliot, Diane Schoemperlen, Brian Fawcett, Thomas King, Keath Fraser, Margaret Atwood, and Clark Blaise.","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022735098096,"sku":"9780889224513","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889224513_p0.jpg?v=1763844367","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889224513","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}