Charlie Canning: 5 books

Notable Book, 2016 Shelf Unbound Competition for Indie Books Charlie Canning writes intricately-contrived fiction with all the creative exuberance of Gabriel Garcia Márquez—delivered, paradoxically, in deadpan “just the facts” style. His previous novel, The 89th Temple, drawn from his...

Seven juvenile offenders on leave from various reform schools are doing the 1,300-kilometer Shikoku Pilgrimage of 88 Temples on foot with a counselor and some assigned wardens from the state. The youths are under strict observation with at least one of the supervisors with them at all times. When...

High school English teacher and would-be novelist STEPHEN MURRAY has had it with his job and wants to quit. His colleague and friend DAVE MATHERS (who has taken out a home equity loan to live his dream of traveling around the world) suggests that STEPHEN try a cranial equity loan so that STEPHEN can...

When George Orwell published his dystopian novel 1984 in 1949, many believed that the totalitarian state that Orwell described couldn’t possibly come into existence by the year 1984. Others thought that it was already manifesting itself on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Since 1949, we have...

Analogies and extended metaphors are drawn between the United States and the Brigadier in John Cheever's short story "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow" and Australia and New Zealand as the de facto bomb shelters for the Northern Hemisphere.