{"product_id":"9780889712270","title":"Six Ways to Sunday","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2008 Relit Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirty pool halls, greasy restaurants, suburban skateboarder showdowns, and dangerous drug dens--some things in life just aren't very subtle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd neither are the short stories in \u003ci\u003eSix Ways to Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e. In fact, they brashly make out with subtlety's teenage crush, beat subtlety into the sidewalk, take a dump on its favourite patch of daisies, and unceremoniously bury it somewhere in the woods near Morgan Lake, Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRealism is often the central element of short fiction, and often too much. Christian McPherson reminds us that to many people, fictions are central to their realities: lottery tickets, deals with God, the delusion of owning the world--or at least selectively rebuilding it in models, bruise-covering makeovers, a chronic criminal playing parent, beating the bad guys and getting away with the loot, and, most certainly, the divine creation of the perfect chilidog.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcPherson infuses his gritty settings with a hyperkinetic imagination and fantastically animated writing style that make his stories impossible to put down or forget. The characters who subsist \u003ci\u003eSix Ways to Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e are the xenophobic, the substance-abused, the VLT-addicted, and the just plain lost, shining bright and battered in the dingy recesses of the bar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033971736816,"sku":"9780889712270","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889712270_p0.jpg?v=1763849256","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889712270","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}