Talk About God & Other Stories

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The near-death experience of an atheist makes him re-evaluate his life. Students are taught how idiotic philosophy can be. Recruits in a boot camp go through tough training exercises to become an elite cadre of readers. A self-made billionaire offers a free course on inner peace. An academic abandons his two kids and meets them as adults. A chef uses his TV cooking show to re-connect with his family. Aspiring writers learn their craft from a ghost. Where "Playing to Win" was about the joy and agony of competition, "Talk About God" offers an eclectic variety of stories that are at once thought-provoking and whimsical, with a touch of the incongruous and the absurd.

Author Bio

F.G. Paci was born in Italy and grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He was the Elia Chair writer-in-residence at York University and has an honorary degree from Laurentian University. He is the author of 13 novels, the last of which was The Son (Oberon, 2011). Among the novels he has published with Guernica are: Italian Shoes (2002), Hard Edge (2006), and Peace Tower (2009). His first collection of short stories, Playing To Win (Guernica), came out in 2012. He lives in Toronto with his wife and has one son.