Burn Man: Selected Stories

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The best collected short fiction of Mark Anthony Jarman published over the last four decades.

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Praise for Mark Anthony Jarman

One of Canada's most accomplished prose stylists, with an affection for jazzy rhythms and oblique angles ... the writing will be familiar to aficionados of the author's earlier workthe trilling sentences, the insouciant alliteration and assonance, the rococo metaphors, the sudden shifts in tone from light to dark, humour to startling violence.
Globe and Mail

Jarman's descriptions of Italy's managed chaos of ruins and tourist traps and crowded cities are witty, evocative and, when he turns his attention to the displaced peoples from Africa, the Middle East and the Baltic states living rough in the dirty streets, often quite moving.
Toronto Star

... as much travelogue, novel in hiding and prose poem as it is a collection of stand-alone stories. In fact, many of the stories do not stand alone. Rather, they lean on each other, interweave and inform each other, sharing a narrator, point of view, main characters and setting.
Atlantic Books Today

Jarman pulls off some ferociously good writing.
The Winnipeg Review

Jarmans prose has the momentum of travel, with vivid images and flashes of understanding about another way of life.
Foreword Reviews

Jarman's collection is called 19 Knives, and it is brilliant. The writing is extraordinary, the stories are gripping, it is something new.
A.S. Byatt, The Guardian

Author Bio

Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of Touch Anywhere to Begin, Czech Techno, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, My White Planet, 19 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Irelands Eye. His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.cas list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazons list of best hockey fiction. Widely published in both Canada and the US, Jarman is a graduate of The Iowa Writers Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, has taught at the University of Victoria, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the University of New Brunswick where he is fiction editor of The Fiddlehead literary journal.