The beggar's garden
Subtitle: stories
By: Michael Christie
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781554688296
Subjects: Fiction
Description: "This ... collection of nine linked stories follows a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters - from bank manager to crackhead to retired Samaritan to mental patient to web designer to car thief - as they drift through each other's lives like ghosts in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside"--Publisher.
Notes: Short stories.
Table of contents: title: Emergency contact; title: Discard; title: Goodbye porkpie hat; title: The queen of cans and jars; title: The extra; title: An ideal companion; title: King me; title: The quiet; title: The beggar's garden.