{"product_id":"9781771964890","title":"This Time, That Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.” —\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimmer cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries,\" writes Margaret Atwood, \"read the stories of Clark Blaise.\"\u003cem\u003e This Time, That Place\u003c\/em\u003e draws together twenty-four stories that span the entirety of Blaise's career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across place and time, through and between languages—from Florida's Confederate swamps, to working-class Pittsburgh, to Montreal and abroad—they demonstrate Blaise's profound mastery of the short story and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identity as fallacy, fable, and dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Time, That Place: Selected Stories\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Clark Blaise as one of the best and most enduring masters of the form—on either side of our shared borders.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clark Blaise (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Biblioasis |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2022-10-18","offer_id":44150952001791,"sku":"9781771964890","price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d19159aa-76fb-4510-bf8d-9abad03961bc.jpg?v=1699912907","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781771964890","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}