Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth

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In stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.

The president of a holistic dog food company is haunted by a pop song from her past. Nine siblings band together to raise themselves after parental abandonment. A domestic argument reveals a woman’s supernatural gift. A failing musician finds his calling soundtracking another man’s life.

Christopher Evans’s stories are people with strays — those who fall for the allure of nostalgia, grapple with male fragility, deny family trauma, and acquiesce to authority. For these characters, resignation and reinvention are only a breath apart.

Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth is a bold debut collection that sits at the threshold of expectation and reality.

Contributors

Christopher Evans

Christopher Evans is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program and a former Prose Editor for PRISM international. His work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, New Quarterly, Lifted Brow, EVENT, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He currently teaches creative writing to children in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
Chapter Title Contents Contributors Pages Year Price

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The short story titled "Always Hungry, Always Poor." 8 $0.80

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The short story titled "Of This, We Were Certain." 8 $0.80

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The short story titled "Nora, at the Cinema." 14 $1.40

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The short story titled "I Don’t Think So." 4 $0.40

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The short story titled "Cakewalk." 13 $1.30

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The short story titled "Over the Coffee Table and Down the Hall." 5 $0.50

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The short story titled "Burrowing." 10 $1.00

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The short story titled "A Species of Setback." 11 $1.10

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The short story titled "A Dissection of Passion." 20 $2.00

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The short story titled "Soundtracker." 22 $2.20

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The short story titled "You, the Truthteller." 10 $1.00

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The short story titled "Aunts and Uncles." 10 $1.00

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The short story titled "You Better Run." 5 $0.50

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The short story titled "The Passion and the Fugue of Edward Frank: A Profile by Jane Gopnik." 6 $0.60

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The short story titled "The Murderess and The Heap." 18 $1.80

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The short story titled "Registry." 13 $1.30

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The short story titled "Do the Donna." 17 $1.70