ARCHIVE – Greg Hollingshead
Greg Hollingshead has published six books of fiction, including The Roaring Girl, The Healer and Bedlam. He has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and been short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Currently professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and director of the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre, in 2011–12 he served as Chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada and, in 2012, he was awarded the Order of Canada. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Rosa Spricer.
Act Normal
Act Normal is a collection of sharp, new comic stories about sex, art and the daily risk of having accidents. Highly original, occasionally dark, but always endearing, these stories are filled with characters who are forced to confront strange behaviour in both themselves and others. Act Normal is a masterful return by Greg Hollingshead to the short story form. Set in the treacherous terrain of the everyday, this collection is about the quest to find love and truth
in a broken world.