Capital Tales

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Capital Tales
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Brian Fawcett
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:204
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 153
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780889222212
ClassificationsDewey:813
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Talon Books,Canada
Imprint Talon Books,Canada
Publication Date 1 January 1984
Publication Country Canada

Description

The survivors and victims inhabiting the pages of Capital Tales dash forever the romantic myth that our peerless captains of industry are guiding us through the mists of progress to a shining land of prosperity. Tough, uncompromising portraits of people discovering the illusions they live by, the stories culminate in a confrontation between the narrator and a nineteenth-century British philosopher a meeting of minds which leaves no meaning of the word "capital" unexamined.

Author Biography

Brian Fawcett Born in 1944 in Prince George, B.C., Brian Fawcett has written poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Talonbooks has published My Career With the Leafs & Other Stories (1992), The Secret Journal of Alexander MacKenzie (1985), Capital Tales (1984) and Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow (1986) by Brian Fawcett.

Reviews

"Fawcett's work expands into a well-earned and genuine visionary criticism of the deadly contradictions within society." -- Books in Canada