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WHAT DOESN'T KILLYOU...MASTER STORY-TELLER HITS HARD WITH NEW COLLECTION
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MASTER STORY-TELLER HITS HARD WITH NEW COLLECTION
Tef's new short story collection, Meteor Storm, coming from Turnstone Press this fall, is a first for this award-winning author who already has nine novels and one non-fiction memoir under his belt.
A launch celebration is scheduled for Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 8 p.m. at McNally Robinson's Prairie Ink Café, Grant Park location.
"I wanted to explore lives lived at the edge and see what knowledge or wisdom might come out of characters struggling there," says Tefs. Once he started writing the stories, he explains, "Each one I wrote seemed to prompt another one."
Gripping and brutal, Meteor Storm leaves readers on a razor's edge. A boy watches silently from the doorway in "Tough Love," as his sister provokes his war-veteran father into a violent confrontation. In "Meathooks for Hands," a boy witnesses his uncle's helpless struggle when his wife leaves him for another man. The stories in Meteor Storm catch the moments where hard-edged men crash into the limits of their power, where their absolute authority is challenged, their self-control shaken, and their manhood threatened.
Winner of the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year
Award, he lives in Winnipeg with his wife and son.
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We hope you will consider reviewing Meteor Storm, or consider attending the launch on October 13th. If you would like to arrange an interview with Wayne Tefs, or for more information, please contact Christine Mazur at Turnstone Press by phone, (204) 947-1555 or by email.
Turnstone Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Sport, and the Department of Canadian Heritage through BPIDP.
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