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.
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
- 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
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Back Cover 2
- Half Title Page 3
- Title Page 5
- Copyright Page 6
- Dedication 7
- Table of Contents 9
- Epigraph 11
- Flies 13
- The Table 23
- The Red Skirt 37
- The Green and Purple Skin of the World 49
- My Real Mother Would Never 59
- Kiss Baby 77
- Vivaldi's Spring 89
- Hell's Hell 99
- Immortality 107
- Love & Medical Miracles 127
- Another Sunday 135
- Not Written in Pencil 147
- An Abundance of Flowers 159
- Breathless 169
- Those Who Follow 181
- Blackbird 205
- Acknowledgements 209
- About the Author 210