"Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians
have never heard of."
--Quill & Quire
"If you want to understand something about what life was like in the
restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimmer cultural soup
of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries," writes Margaret
Atwood, "read the stories of Clark Blaise." This Time, That Place
draws together twenty-four stories that span the entirety of Blaise's
career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across
place and time, through and between languages--from Florida's
Confederate swamps, to working-class Pittsburgh, to Montreal and
abroad--they demonstrate Blaise's profound mastery of the short story
and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identity as
fallacy, fable, and dream.
This Time, That Place: Selected Stories confirms Clark Blaise as one
of the best and most enduring masters of the form--on either side of our
shared borders.