Magnetic Dogs: Volume 202

Magnetic Dogs is a collection of short stories that examines how displaced individuals - those who have been snatched out of their time and place - struggle to adapt and reinvent themselves in an entirely new context or re-establish themselves in their former situations. In stories that are factual fiction, Meyer examines the composition of Gabriel Fauré's haunting "Cantique de Jean Racine," the 1960s 'scoop' of Indigenous children from Manitoulin Island, the missing diaries of Lewis Carroll that save that author from the charges of child molestation that ruined his career as an academic, the true story of a shade of red and Seventh Century Chinese exploration of the North Atlantic, and the origins and ramifications of a haunting Aztec form of music, borrowed by J.S. Bach, the 'chaconne.' In these stories Meyer constantly questions the ways our perceptions of the past might have been different had small events transpired to make them so.

Author: Bruce Meyer
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 10/01/2022
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781771837491
ISBN10: 1771837497
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Alternative History
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author

Bruce Meyer is author of more than sixty books. He lives in Barrie, Ontario and teaches at Georgian College.