Dean Gessie

A Brief History of Summer Employment

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A fictional memoir that unpacks blood sport in the marketplace. The narrator finances many years of post-secondary education by taking summer jobs of dizzying variety. As he documents his experiences, he becomes porte-parole for a generation in the grips of precarious work. More broadly, however, he illuminates personalities of intriguing emotional and psychological complexity in circumstances that are obviously or discreetly desperate. These are dispatches from the front lines, stories that present an ironic and critical portrait of economic activity and human imperfections. Adversity and anguish burn in the atmosphere as do humor and herois… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-68114-338-5
EAN: 9781681143385
Produktnummer: 22957464
Verlag: Anaphora Literary Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 82 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.4 cm 134 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 134

Über den Autor

Dean Gessie was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He enjoyed a long career as Head of the English Department at Pickering College in Newmarket, Ontario. While there, he was also Director of the award-winning Joshua Weinzweig Creative Writing Program. Gessie won Honorable Mention in the Press 53 Novella Competition. Also, one of his short stories was selected to the list of Highly Commended Stories in the international Manchester Fiction Prize. Most recently, Gessie published Guantanamo Redux, dystopian fiction about the near future in America and the byzantine complications of survival in an authoritarian state. Gessie has also written and served extensively as a social justice activist.