88: Best Canadian Stories

by David Helwig (Editor), Maggie Helwig (Editor), Carol Shields

If the short story is alive and well in Canada today that could be because the Oberon annual, now in its eighteenth year, has provided a home for the growing number of writers who see in the story an appropriate form for this particular time and place. Once again we have the work of some relative newcomers (Genni Gunn, Susan Swan) as well as that of some old hands (Jane Rule, Joyce Marchall). And Timothy Findley and Rohinton Mistry are fresh from Governor General's Awards. This is a rice and varied collection of the best short fiction being written in Canada this year.

Contents:
Dressing Up for the Carnival / Carol Shields
Bragg & Minna / Timothy Findley
The Other Mexico / Tom Marshall
On the Road / Genni Gunn
Heaven Full of Astronauts / Dayv James-French
Facing the Precipice / Rohinton Mistry
Why I Decide to Kill Mystery & Other Jokes / Douglas Glover
Blood and Bone / Joyce Marshall
Heart of My Heart / Bronwen Wallace
Sluts / Susan Swan
The Violent Lavender Beast / Ernest Hekkanen
War's End / Jane Rule

216 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1988

About the author

David Helwig was a Canadian editor, essayist, memoirist, novelist, poet, short story writer and translator.