Chemical valley : stories / David Huebert.
From city-dwelling preppers to long term care nurses, dishwashers to professional hockey enforcers to refinery workers, Chemical Valley's caring and carefully-wrought stories cultivate rich human emotional worlds in all the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy. Full-hearted, laced throughout with bruised optimism and a sincere appreciation of the profound beauty of our wilted, wheezing world, Chemical Valley does not shy away from urgent modern questions--the distribution of toxicity, environmental racism, the future of technology, the climate, and the human body--but it grounds these anxieties in vivid and often humorous intricacies of its characters' lives. These are stories about big questions, but they are not scared of sentiment. Swamp-wrought, they run wild with vital energy, tilt and teeter into crazed and delirious loves. Contemporary issues: climate crisis, social justice, 21st century alienation. The characters in these stories are struggling with feelings of dislocation and exile from their natural and social worlds: a man struggling to care for the environment and his dying girlfriend while still working at a power plant that's polluting his city. Genre: Huebert's stories engage with the ecological world in surprising ways, expressing wonder at the world around us, dismay at its destruction, and using that world as a metaphor for humanity's own floundering, a new genre of ecological/climate fiction he conceives of as 'dirty nature writing.'
Record details
- ISBN: 9781771964470
- ISBN: 1771964472
- Physical Description: 231 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A John Metcalf book." |
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Subject: | Short stories, Canadian > 21st century. Climatic changes > Social aspects > Fiction. Social justice > Fiction. Alienation (Social psychology) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Canadian fiction. Ecofiction. Short stories. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Bowen Island Public Library.
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