Education
University of Toronto.
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( A frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes ...)
A frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship in Europe. Back home, his young sister is a high-school girl who suddenly starts to ooze honey through her pores, an affliction that attracts hordes of bees as well as her male classmates but ultimately turns her into a social pariah. Meanwhile, their obsessive Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to rid her family of demons. The siblings are reunited on a ship bound for Europe where they hope to start a new life, but are unaware that their disguised mother is also on board and plotting to win back their souls, with the help of the Virgin Mary. Told in a lush baroque prose, this intense, extravagant magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality. Barry Webster's first book, The Sound of All Flesh, won the ReLit Award for story collections.
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University of Toronto.
Originally from Toronto, Ontario, he is currently based in Montreal, Quebec, where he teaches English literature at Marianopolis College. His short stories have also been shortlisted for the National Magazine Award. He was a featured speaker at the 2013 Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.
He has a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of Toronto, and an Master of Arts in creative writing from Concordia University.
A classically trained pianist, he has two ARCTs from the Royal Conservatory of Music. He has also occasionally worked as an actor, including in a production of Sam Shepard"s play Savage/Love and in a radio adaptation of his own short story "Enough".
His short story collection The Sound of All Flesh won a ReLit Award in 2006, and was a shortlisted nominee for the Hugh MacLennan Award. His 2012 novel The Lava in My Bones was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award and the Lambda Literary Award. In 2013 he was awarded an Honour of Distinction by the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, an award presented by the Writers" Trust of Canada.
( A frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes ...)
