Rebecca Rosenblum Launches "The Big Dream"

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 7:00pm

Dora Keogh Pub
141 Danforth Ave
Toronto, ON
M4K 1N2

Biblioasis is pleased to welcome you to the launch of Rebecca Rosenblum's latest collection of short fiction, The Big Dream.

If Rebecca's first book Once (2008) was, as Steven Beattie said, " the most exciting first book of short stories by a Canadian writer since Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades," then this may well prove to be 2010's Lives of Girls and Women. The Big Dream offers a suite of linked stories about a group of disparate workers -- from the cafeteria and telemarketing staff to the researchers and CEOs -- employed by a foundering publishing company, and chronicles its character's lives mainly between the hours of nine-to-five. These stories are, as one would expect, beautifully told, with a sharp, pitch-perfect ear for dialogue: funny, moving, frightening, surreal, fearless, generous and wise. If this is indeed the Year of the Short Story (YOSS), then The Big Dream should help firm up Biblioasis's reputation as the Press for the Short Story, and it should be a collection on every short fiction fan's reading list.

The evening will include an on-stage interview conducted by Kerry Clare and a short reading by Rebecca Rosenblum. Books will be available courtesy of Ben McNally Books.

For more information on the book, please check out the press website: http://www.biblioasis.com/rebe...

There is also a Facebook page for the launch where you can confirm your attendance, should you wish to do so: http://www.facebook.com/event....

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