Beneath the Western Slopes
(Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1987)
Hardcover. Dust Jacket. 190 pages.
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"Beneath the western slopes of Mexico, beneath the mango and sycamore trees, lies a hidden village, the setting for Patrick Roscoe's first collection of stories. Here are madrigals of love and desire, of beauty and death, of hope and rebirth, sung against a continuum of earth, ocean, flower, mountain, and sky. Through dazzling imagistic virtuosity overlying a storybook narrative, through parable, fable, extended metaphor and simile, Beneath the Western Slopes moves with breathtaking lyrical fluidity to a world at once earthly and beyond the stars"(from the inside cover). |
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"Patrick Roscoe's stories ache with the need for beauty, and his is a heart large enough to render it with power. This is a debut of the first eminence."
--Leon Rooke
"Patrick Roscoe is a born storyteller. At the beginning of his career, he is already at the top of this demanding literary form."
--Geoffrey Hancock
"A first book of stunning maturity—one which combines cool craftsmanship and poetic sensibility.
Each of the 13 stories is a gem of emotional an structural control, judicious choice of detail and images, and magical language."
--The Calgary Herald
"Even when you can least fathom what Roscoe thinks he is about, you don't want him to stop."
--The Toronto Star
"Stunning...a cyclical, hallucinatory timelessness."
--Ottawa Citizen
"Irresistible energy...a splendid entertainment."
--Kingston Whig Standard
"A wonderkind of Canadian fiction....a marvel."
--Regina Leader-Post
To order a new copy of the long-out-of print hardcover first edition of Beneath the Western Slopes,
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