Goth Girls of Banff

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Publication Year:
2020

ISBN-13: 9781988732961

&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Shortlisted for a 2021 ReLit Award&#10;in the short fiction category!</b><br><b>Finalist for Trade&#10;Fiction Book of the Year at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing&#10;Awards!</b><br><br>John O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s gothic short stories, set&#10;in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and&#10;humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are&#10;surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sister&#10;team of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountain&#10;trails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a family driving&#10;west; and an animal pathologist, while performing a necropsy on a grizzly bear,&#10;has an unusual encounter with both technology and&#10;humanity.</p><p><i>Goth Girls of Banff</i> is a superb&#10;collection, sharply written, with plot turns as consequence-laden as those on&#10;an iced-over mountain road.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Shortlisted for a 2021 ReLit Award&#10;in the short fiction category!</b><br><b>Finalist for Trade&#10;Fiction Book of the Year at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing&#10;Awards!</b><br><br>John O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s gothic short stories, set&#10;in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and&#10;humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are&#10;surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sister&#10;team of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountain&#10;trails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a family driving&#10;west; and an animal pathologist, while performing a necropsy on a grizzly bear,&#10;has an unusual encounter with both technology and&#10;humanity.</p><p><i>Goth Girls of Banff</i> is a superb&#10;collection, sharply written, with plot turns as consequence-laden as those on&#10;an iced-over mountain road.</p>