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May 20, 2024 · The following is from Alex Pugsley's The Education of Aubrey McKee. Pugsley is the author of the novel Aubrey McKee and the short story collection Shimmer . Following the publication of Aubrey McKee , he was named one of CBC’s Writers to Watch.
Four years ago, the writer and filmmaker Alex Pugsley published Aubrey McKee, the first of five planned autobiographical novels. Aubrey narrates his life in Halifax between 1963 and 1985. The history of the “saltwater city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters” confronts him as he passes “through ...
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Although the sections of Aubrey McKee were written to be short stories, they all have the same narrator and they’re all about Halifax. The short stories in Shimmerare quite different. There is an assortment of narrators, of varying maturities, and the stories take place all over—Toronto, L.A., and Cape Breton, among other settings. They were writte...
What do the stories have in common? Do you see a link between them, either structurally or thematically?
There arelinks between them. Characters you see in one story, from one character’s point of view, you might see again in another story, at another time, and from a different point of view. The reader has an active relationship with regard to figuring out who someone is and what their life means. And structurally they’re similar because they’re writ...
Jun 23, 2020 · An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley’s long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, émigré heart surgeons and small-time thugs, renegade private school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which they’ve been born.
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Jun 19, 2020 · Whether he’s recalling his phase as “an indiscriminate teenage joiner” or as a marijuana salesman in the mid-1970s, Alex Pugsley’s narrator writes from the point of a man well settled into ...
His first story collection, Shimmer, was recently nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His next book, The Education of Aubrey McKee, has just been published by Biblioasis. The second in a multi-part series, the novel details Aubrey’s arrival in Toronto as a young adult.
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Jun 2, 2020 · A sensitive young man shares his memories of growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Though it wouldn’t rank high on any list of well-known literary destinations, Halifax provides a fertile field for Pugsley’s collection of 14 linked stories about his eponymous narrator’s life there from childhood through his early 20s in the mid-1980s.
