amp34Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard ofamp34Quill ampamp QuirequotIf you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless peripatetic striving anxietyridden shimmer cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twentyfirst centuriesamp34 writes Margaret Atwood amp34read the stories of Clark Blaiseamp34 This Time That Place draws together twentyfour stories that span the entirety of Blaises career including one never previously published Moving swiftly across place and time through and between languagesamp8212from Floridas Confederate swamps to workingclass Pittsburgh to Montreal and abroadamp8212they demonstrate Blaises profound mastery of the short story and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identity as fallacy fable and dreamamp160This Time That Place Selected Stories confirms Clark Blaise as one of the best and most enduring masters of the formamp8212on either side of our shared borders
