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Sacraments for the Unfit

Sarah Tolmie

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English
AQUEDUCT PRESS
01 July 2023
The isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic brought out the ritualist in many of us. In this collection of contemporary weird short fiction, a variety of different persons and beings try to fill up their days in varying states of isolation and mystery, real or imaginary. An angel outlives the Apparat that used to employ him; a deity complains about no longer feeling seen; a museum curator living alone begins to inexplicably alter; a medievalist suffering from vision loss gets into a strange relationship with the ghost of the codicologist M. R. James; enigmatic objects begin to work themselves out of the ground by the grave of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, prompting scholarly speculation. Sacraments For the Unfit is a series of vignettes about the transformations that can happen while staying in place

--Tolmie, Sarah

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Imprint:   AQUEDUCT PRESS
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 219mm,  Width: 142mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   254g
ISBN:   9781619762404
ISBN 10:   1619762404
Pages:   146
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

This is Sarah Tolmie's sixth book with Aqueduct Press: others include The Stone Boatmen, nominated for the Crawford Award in 2015, and The Little Animals, winner of the Special Citation at the Philip K Dick Awards in 2020. In addition to publishing short fiction, novellas, and novels with Aqueduct, she has released two novellas with Tor.com, The Fourth Island and All the Horses of Iceland; the latter was listed as one of the top fantasy books of 2022 by The New York Times. She has also written three volumes of poetry for McGill-Queen's University Press; the second one, The Art of Dying, was a finalist for the 2019 Griffin Prize for Poetry. In her other life she is a Professor of English at the University of Waterloo. Her website is sarahtolmie.ca.

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