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Confidence: Stories

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize.

Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Among the National Post's 50 Best Books of 2015

One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015

"A poisonously funny portrait of the so-hip-it-hurts fashion, food, and bar scene."—Maclean's

In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. There is one magic cinema and everyone has a secret of some kind.

Russell Smith is the author of Girl Crazy and How Insensitive. Confidence, recently longlisted for the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, is his US debut.

Language: English

Pages: 158

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Biblioasis

Release: July 14, 2015

ISBN: 1771960159

ISBN 13: 9781771960151

Confidence: Stories

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize.

Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Among the National Post's 50 Best Books of 2015

One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015

"A poisonously funny portrait of the so-hip-it-hurts fashion, food, and bar scene."—Maclean's

In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. There is one magic cinema and everyone has a secret of some kind.

Russell Smith is the author of Girl Crazy and How Insensitive. Confidence, recently longlisted for the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, is his US debut.

Language: English

Pages: 158

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Biblioasis

Release: July 14, 2015

ISBN: 1771960159

ISBN 13: 9781771960151

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