A Texture Like Velvet: Short Story

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HarperCollins Canada, Nov 15, 2012 - Fiction - 50 pages

When a young academic confronts the mass genocide underwriting her own intellectual inheritance, she comes to question the value of knowledge at the expense of human life. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall’s Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fifteen quirky and cutting parables about history, memory, and the cost of creating art.

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About the author (2012)

Helen Marshall’s debut collection Hair Side, Flesh Side earned her praise as “the new face of horror” (January Magazine). Her work has been nominated for the Aurora Award from the Canadian Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, and the Sydney J. Bounds Award from the British Fantasy Society, which she won in 2013.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Texture Like Velvet: Short Story
AuthorHelen Marshall
PublisherHarperCollins Canada, 2012
ISBN1771480122, 9781771480123
Length50 pages
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Fiction / Fantasy / General
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
  
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