Parlor Press: Small Maps of the World

Small Maps of the World

Brooke Biaz

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Small Maps of the World

Brooke Biaz

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ISBN 1-932559-56-6 ($14.00; £7.60; Paper); ISBN 1-932559-57-4 ($32.00; £17.30; Cloth); ISBN 1-932559-58-2 ($12.00; £6.50 Adobe eBook on CD)

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Description
This new collection of fiction from Graeme Harper, writing as Brooke Biaz, investigates the meanings attached to events in place; and then the tourism of time bound to places, with bountiful humor and wit Small Maps of the World unearths the bonds between individuals and location but also wonders on the underlying connections between people and their sense of belonging.

Inspired by events in places from Europe and Great Britain to Australasia and the USA, these stories find the subsurface of the surroundings through voice and story in a tapestry of narratives woven around a hotel and restaurant. Tourists blend in, or not, living their mysteries and love stories in these slices of small-town, coastal life.

About the Author
Graeme Harper is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal New Writing, and Head of the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth (UK). Chair of the UK’s Centre for Creative Writing Research-Through-Practice, his works include Dancing on the Moon, Swallowing Film: Short Fiction and Black Cat, Green Field. His awards include the National Book Council Award for New Fiction (Australia) and many others.

Contents

Traveling I

Time
Heloise Finds a Mammoth
Science Fiction
Being Umberto Eco
Innsbruck
The Festival of Funerals
A History of Sleeping
The Instrument
Recording the Humpback
Going to the Volcano
Maine Mane
The Bridge
Bill and Sue’s Big Adventure
Marvin Studlovsky’s Brother
The Little Merman Turns Sixteen
Wolf Boy, Aged 83

Traveling II

Place
Arrival
Breakfast Is at Eight
The Entertainment
Holiday Romance
Hotel Crime
A Man Is Not an Island
Tourist Attractions
Departure

New from Graeme Harper . . .

Moon Dance

A Novel

Brooke Biaz

Information and Pricing
978-1-60235-043-4 (paperback $18.00; £11.00); 978-1-60235-044-1 (hardcover; $34.00; £22.00); 978-1-60235-045-8 (Adobe eBook; $18.00). 437 pages.

Available Formats: paperback | cloth with dustjacket | PDF eBook on CD

Description
Being born in the 1960s can take ten years of your life. . . . Sometimes the universe and our lives entwine. In the era of the space race, as JFK sent us rocketing toward The Moon, a family, a life, a love, was being created in a tropical beach house. Moon Dance is the story of a decade, a conception, a family, a birth. One small step for man, one giant leap for womankind!

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