A woman poisons her husband, who sputters and keels over but will not die. A man has his restaurant burned down, then retraces the steps, certain he has made a mistake. A tightrope walker slips off the cable and dangles over the crowd by her fingers. Despite their best efforts, people always screw up.
Riedel writes about fools and low-lifes who cannot help but make mistakes. His stories are taut and perversely funny, often punctuated with moments of heartbreak, and his characters are classic scumbags who put their own interests before all others — to hell with everyone else.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Short stories Revision of author's M.A. thesis with same title Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781554831333 9781554831104
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.R53755
- LCCN Item number
- I67 2013eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (119 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00234098 (OCoLC)872601239 (CaOOCEL)465461
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- BEHAVING THIS WAY 1
- IS ALL I HAVE LEFT STORIES 1
- GONZALO RIEDEL 1
- BEHAVING THIS WAY 1
- IS ALL I HAVE LEFT STORIES 1
- GONZALO RIEDEL 1
- BEHAVING THIS WAY IS ALL I HAVE LEFT RIEDEL INSOMNIAC PRESS 1
- Behaving This Way Is 2
- All I Have Left 2
- Behaving This Way Is 4
- All I Have Left 4
- Contents 8
- The Trained Performers 10
- Clubbers 20
- A Matter of Degrees 38
- The Alderson Murder 46
- Castle Gates 64
- The Escort Agency 76
- Bumpers 88
- Chewing His Way Free 98
- Crack in the Headstone 114
- BEHAVING THIS WAY 121
- IS ALL I HAVE LEFT STORIES 121
- GONZALO RIEDEL 121
- BEHAVING THIS WAY 121
- IS ALL I HAVE LEFT STORIES 121
- GONZALO RIEDEL 121
- BEHAVING THIS WAY IS ALL I HAVE LEFT RIEDEL INSOMNIAC PRESS 121
