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BooksFamous Players
(story collection, 1982)The comedy of embarrassment. A collection of 12 stories, about a man fixated on the Prime Minister, an E.J Pratt specialist teaching geology in Tuktoyuktuk, group sex above an IGA, a young man resentful of his visionary father, a flight with a suicidal pilot and his terrorist friends, an English wedding (more group sex), an old woman who takes in a derelict jogger, a paperback writer . . . Out of print.
Copies available at Laurie Greenwoods' Volume II bookstore, Edmonton
(e-mail: volumeii@telusplanet.net). "A developed style, a precision of language, and a non-gimmicky dexterity of imagination." -- Edmonton Journal "Hollingshead specializes in assembling incomprehensible signs into stories using such careful and clear language that you begin to think him logical." -- Anne Collins, Maclean's "Wit, imagination, intensity abound . . . an elegant sensibility." -- The Globe and Mail "Hollingshead understands some of the most intricate manoeuvres of the human heart." --Books in Canada "[Hollingshead] seems interested only in the fabulous, in the borderline between perception and hallucination, knowing and wishing." -- Ken Adachi, Toronto Star
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