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\"Douglas<\/a>Finalist, Rogers Writers\u2019 Trust Fiction Prize<\/p>\n

Top fiction picks for 2000: This Morning<\/i> (CBC Radio); Hot Type<\/i> (CBC Television); Philip Marchand, The Toronto Star<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery sentence and every paragraph pulse with energy . . . We can read and re-read the stories with pleasure because of that verbal energy, that sense of humour, that sharpness of style and observation \u2014 and the occasional moment of genuine pathos.\u201d (The <\/i>Toronto<\/i> Star<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cLanguage dancing to a sardonic tune . . . [The characters\u2019] world has a ghostly, insubstantial feel to it \u2014 a tribute to Glover\u2019s ability to capture the feel of our current environment, one in which Marshall McLuhan\u2019s \u2018discarnate man\u2019 flourishes with sad abandon.\u201d (Philip Marchand, The Toronto Star<\/i>, 31 December 2000, one of the top ten Canadian books of 2000)<\/p>\n

\u201cSaturated in irony, humour, and philosophical ripostes, 16 Categories of Desire<\/i> is an affectionate slap in the face, a kiss that draws blood . . . There is not a weak story among them, and each has its own rambunctious internal logic . . . One of our most original and challenging writers. He has the linguistic and philosophical scaffolding to create stories that are truly raucous wonders. They manage to keep the reader thinking and laughing and lamenting, sometimes all simultaneously.\u201d (<\/em>Globe and Mail<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\"Douglas<\/a>\u201cA delightful and entertaining book about the pain of lost love . . . Glover\u2019s disconcerting power as a writer comes from the fact that he can quickly and effortlessly shift from cartoon comedy to emotional intimacy . . . Pain and love are the twin gods that rule Glover\u2019s universe.\u201d (The National Post<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are left with the mystery that the same impulses that draw people together can also pull them apart. Yet the myriad characters that act out these impulses remain in our minds since they are so wonderfully energized by Glover\u2019s lively prose and ever surprising storytelling.\u201d (The National Post<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWith his much-praised novel, The Life and Times of Captain N.<\/i> (1993), Glover emerged as an important Canadian writer. These stories only add to his stature.\u201d (The National Post<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cSo rich are Glover\u2019s talent and compassion that the conflicts intersect and multiply. Sex and death \u2014 their promise and threat \u2014 tangle and release in equal, debauched measure . . . Glover explores via intellect and flaunts his profound understanding and acceptance of all human desires. Glover proves what can happen when an artist cares and then takes time: hefty stories, awfully good.\u201d (Quill & Quire, <\/i>starred review)<\/p>\n

\u201cDouglas Glover\u2019s characters range from the flailingly psychotic to the flatly honest, the desperately sad to the gleefully repressed . . . 16 Categories of Desire<\/i> offers so much in the way of inventiveness and outright skill, I\u2019d recommend not only this latest collection, but a look at his other work as well.\u201d (Review of Contemporary Fiction<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cA deeply meditative book that dares to shine a light under the sheets of desire \u2014 by turns disturbing and exciting. Glover has marked out his turf among his contemporaries as a writer who bravely transforms the stuff of lurid headlines, therapists\u2019 couches, and court dockets into high art.\u201d (The <\/i>Kitchener-Waterloo<\/i> Record<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis collection of 11 stories is uniformly strong, each deftly written and laced with withering insights into the unremitting strangeness of human desire . . . 11 portions to be savoured . . . tough and honest stories, stories that posit that we all have a heart made up of equal parts darkness and light.\u201d (The Daily Gleaner<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will laugh, you will squirm, you will probably nod your head, and at the conclusion you may just have to agree with Sister Mary in the title story: \u201cthere ain\u2019t no end to desire.\u201d (Pottersfield Portfolio<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe author of these 11 stories writes with great passion. He locks the reader into a shameless voyeuristic gaze, compelling us to look upon the lives of the bitterly destroyed . . . Glover has an enviable talent. His intellectually complex stories invite rereading.\u201d (Canadian Book Review Annual<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cDesire leaps off the page \u2014 it\u2019s not uncomplicated, but there is no mistaking it.\u201d (Claire Wilkshire, Canadian Literature<\/i>)<\/p>\n

on \u201cThe Left Ladies Club\u201d — \u201cHilarious yet sobering . . . Ratfinking on the literary mystique, Glover has produced a literary gem.\u201d (Val Ross, Globe and Mail<\/i>)<\/p>\n

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Seize Sortes de d\u00e9sir<\/i><\/h3>\n

<\/i> (16 Categories of Desire<\/i>, French translation)<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cConfirms the importance of the author at the centre of Canadian letters.\u201d (Le Soleil<\/i>)<\/p>\n

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Table of Contents<\/h3>\n

La Corriveau — My Romance — Iglaf and Swan — The Indonesian Client — The Left Ladies Club — Bad News of the Heart — Abrupt Extinctions and the End of the Cretaceous — Lunar Sensitivities — State of the Nation — A Piece of the True Cross — Sixteen Categories of Desire.<\/p>\n

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Order 16 Categories of Desire<\/em><\/h3>\n