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The Green and Purple Skin of the World

2013

In any skin purple is a heavy tone that penetrates to the core. Paulo da Costa's stories get under your skin, bruise your consciousness with their exploration of the forces that hold us together, not always benignly, and those that pull us apart. A hunter and cougar ponder the positions of predator and prey under the dense canopy of a West Coast forest. A nine-year-old girl tells her stuffed rabbit, Carrot, that it's not as easy to run away as she thought, especially when she suspects someone is following her. Like the bubbles that the character in the title story blows while witnessing the dissolution of a love affair, these stories dazzle and beguile: with their craft, their often dark humour, their grasp of people living the extremity that is daily life.
fiction literary

Authors

paulo da costa

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
Edited by Barbara Scott"--Title page verso Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781554811397 9781770483590
LCCN
PR9199.4.D24
LCCN Item number
G74 2013eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaBNVSL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (206 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)thg00974185 (OCoLC)815853049 (CaOOCEL)478988
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaBNVSL

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