Fabulous Fictions & Peculiar PracticesIn Fabulous Fictions and Peculiar Practices, politics and economics sprawl comfortably alongside prurient dissertations on sex, marriage and aging as Leon Rooke and Tony Calzetta masterfully unfold a narrative of society’s indifference to the sorry plight of the artist. In this unique confluence of image and text, a pompous bank president delivers a rousing oration to his number cruncher clerks, and the painter Cézanne faces off against a disquieting muse and the cold rejection of the artistic community. Art critics, reveling in their own pedantry, find perverse enjoyment in professing ridiculous opinions. And God himself makes a cameo appearance—fearsome, irreverent and, it must be said, at times lecherous.... Satirical, playful and provocative, Fabulous Fictions is a madcap tour de force unlike anything you’ve ever seen or heard before.
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Contents
Snoop Protege of Snap | 73 |
Those Lousy Pessimists Sometimes Make a Guy So Blue | 81 |
Peculiar Practices in Alberta Possibly Related | 87 |
Some Ideas about the Camping Experience | 97 |
Certain to Develop Should We EverDeclare Our Love | 111 |
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