A Cupboardful of Shoes: And Other Stories
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Im a librarian and I kissed a film star once. I touched her nipples too. At least, I think I did. So begins Queens Grill. Horatio Humphries, one of the unreliable narrators, strikes up a brief friendship with a movie star on a rough Atlantic crossing, but his twin brother doesnt believe him. In A Pregnant Woman with Parcels at Brock and Bagot, an unnamed woman may or may not have an affair with a man she met at a partydepending on whether she can get by a woman in front of her. Distantly from Gardens, a variant on the theme of the double found often in Russian literature, presents a man with a split personality, inhabited by two narrators who are his past as well as his present. While other stories are told in either the first or third person, the subject here demands the use of the second.
The stories in A Cupboardful of Shoes explore subjects as wide-ranging as disappointed love, violence, and war, sometimes with an underlying religious theme, serving to illustrate Wrights eclectic style and literary interests.
A. Colin Wright
A. Colin Wright was raised in England, learning Russian during National Service in the Royal Air Force. He read modern languages (French, German, and Russian) at Cambridge University, with a Ph.D. on the twentieth-century Russian novelist and playwright, Mikhail Bulgakov. In 1963–64, he studied at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute (now University) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). He came to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1964, where he taught Russian language and literature until his retirement in 1999. He has published widely academically, with numerous articles on Russian and comparative literature. His major book on Bulgakov was published by the University of Toronto Press. Other publications include a novel and a collection of stories. He also writes plays, and acts and directs in the local theatre. (See for all of this: http://www.acolinwright.ca, http://www.sardiniansilver.com, http://www.cupboardfulofshoes.com, and http://www.authorsden.com/acolinwright.) He and his wife still live in Kingston. They have two sons and four grandchildren.
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