The Box

By George Bowering

Fiction. THE BOX breaks with the conventional genre of short stories, weaving together biography, autobiography, parable, and drama. Here is fourteen-year old Drew, transplanted from the coast to the Okanagan, and working at his first summer job picking prunes for the town MILF. Here, too, is the extraordinary tale of minor-league pitcher Bunny Watson who strings together an amazing twenty wins without a loss. Bowering trades witty barbs with the poet Phyllis Webb in the experimental story Phyllis's Questions, while the title story The Box explores romantic and platonic relationships as the characters play with the art of opening a box. At times cerebral, THE BOX is always playful, clever, and entertaining.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554200458
• ISBN13: 9781554200450
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: New Star Books
• Length: 192 Pages