14 Stories by Mel Dagg

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>Fourteen stories featuring characters caught in amazing circumstances. This collection follows the characters as they push new boundaries and explore the complexity of relationships. Each story reveals the intricacies of the human condition. Join them as they navigate through life choices. Through spare haunting dramatic prose the reader will discover worlds of startling clarity. Powerful! Evocative! The stories resonate and bear revisiting.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>Acclaim for Mel Dagg's fiction:</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>Dagg demonstrates extraordinary poise...while avoiding the sentimentalization the stories warn against.</em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>~ Montreal Gazette </strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>A marvel of precision and personal vision.</em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>~ Alberta Report </strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>Genius when it comes to the art of fiction. I think of Mel as one of the more important voices now at work in Western Canada </em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>~ Gary Geddes </strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>Artistic poise the complexity of relationship the smoothness and delicacy of evocation the human condition. </em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>~ Hugh Hood </strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>Wonderful- and clear and clean and focused...way beyond description - it's what writing should do.</em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>~ Gayla Reid winner of The Journey Prize and Ethel Wilson Prize </strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>Reverberates in the mind long after the book is closed.</em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>~ Newest Review </strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>Power to involve us now and move us deeply.</em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>~ Vancouver Sun </strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>Dagg's primary concern is the human heart endlessly beating beneath the skin and the good that flows through the soul. He probes deep into the human centred world of his fiction. There are small epiphanies on every page.</em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1)>~ Richard Olafson Ekstasis Editions</strong></p>