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A Stranger in This World (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

A Stranger in This World, Kevin Canty’s first book of short stories, presents characters who attempt to free themselves from one constraint or another, including how they feel or whom they are with. In each story, images often focus critical aspects of the plot.

The first story of A Stranger in This World, “King of the Elephants,” and the last, the title story, bracket the collection with the sense of entrapment that arises in one form or another in the other stories. “King of the Elephants” features a boy trapped by his sense of responsibility to a father...

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