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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik
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English

LIFE ON MARS

Lori McNulty

LIFE ON MARS captures lives on the verge of crisis, transformation, euphoria and despair—sometimes all of these things at once. Lori's fiction hits the high notes of some of our favorite short story writers such as Lorrie Moore and Wells Tower
A heart-transplant recipient abandons his everyday world, developing an intimate relationship with his donated heart.

Two brothers find, in their rotting family tree, the tangled roots of a dark childhood memory.

A young woman determined to alter her life travels to Thailand to re-connect body and soul, returning to Toronto to face the wrath of her estranged mother.

A man transformed into a powerful but reluctant three-eyed god tries to conquer global unrest but first must do battle with his own human failings.

In a blend of aesthetic styles that range from vivid realism to magic realism, these stories fight—sharp toothed and bloodied claw—to create a space for the imagination within our mutual quest for meaning. These are strange, compassionate stories for our disconnected contemporary times.

LORI MCNULTY's is a Vancouver-based digital storyteller and traveler. Africa is next on the horizon. www.lorimcnulty.ca. LIFE ON MARS is her first book. She is at work on a novel.
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Published by Goose Lane Editions

Comments

"That terseness, the condensed scene, the quick-shift to the next event - all of these are what set McNulty's writing apart from that of so many others. Dialogue and description seem to fly almost breathlessly across the pages. It's no wonder her stories have been nominated for the prestigious Journey Prize, the award for best short story by an emerging writer."