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In this collection of short stories, Toronto's F.G. Paci brings the art of gamesmanship to a new level. Never has sport as a metaphor for life's battles been more evident or more subtly employed to bring out the ecstacy and pain of playing to win.
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F.G. Paci was born in Italy and grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He was the Elia Chair writer-in-residence at York University and has an honorary degree from Laurentian University. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, among them: The Italians, Oberon Press, 1978. (Signet Ed. 1980. French trans. La Famille Gaetano, Guernica, 1990); Black Madonna, Oberon, 1982; The Father, Oberon, 1984; Black Blood, Oberon, 1991; Icelands, Oberon, 1999. Italian Shoes, Guernica, 2002 (Italian Trans. Scarpe Italiane, Iannone, Italy, 2008); Hard Edge, Guernica, 2005; Peace Tower, Guernica, 2009; and The Son, Oberon, 2011. A book of essays on his work (F.G. Paci: Essays on His Work, ed. J. Pivato, Guernica) came out in 2003. He lives in Toronto with his wife and has one son.
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The game of life. Stories about competition in sports and games and activities. The Greek conception of the agon, competitive tests of skill and endurance and fortitude - and experiencing what an old TV show once called the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. There is more, however, than the pleasure of a score and the pain of a loss. More than the outcome of the competition is what the competition reveals about character. And, though all playing involves fun and skill and struggle, there is the game that leads to the short-term outcome and there is the game that is without end. The game of life.
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