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Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 2024–1984

Name: Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 2024–1984
ISBN: 9781738009893

By
- Gary Barwin
Publisher
- Assembly Press

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Language: English
Format
Category: Short stories

Winner of the 2025 Hamilton Literary Award for Fiction

A new collection of stories by Giller Prize finalist Gary Barwin that puts the fab in fabulist.

Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 1984–2024 couples brand new and uncollected stories with selections of the most playful and ambitious of Barwin’s previous collections, including Cruelty to Fabulous Animals, Big Red Baby, Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth, and I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251–1457.

Barwin’s prose kicks against short fiction’s more traditional forms: these are pieces that flirt with poetry and playwriting. Whole stories—and worlds—are packed into single compact paragraphs. There are narrators and fleas and lists and imperatives and Hitler’s moustache and radiant happiness.

Known as a “whiz-bang storyteller” who can deliver magical, dream-like sequences and truisms about the human condition in the same paragraph, Barwin’s trademark brilliance, wit, and originality are on display in this can’t-miss collection of short fiction.

Release date

Ebook: 24 September 2024