The Dirt Chronicles
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Lambda Literary Award finalist
A tattooed young man regains consciousness in the Don Jail, charged with his friend's murder. An anti-social office clerk falls for a handsome bike courier and abandons his former life. An Ojibwe teen hunts for her kidnapped girlfriend in an illegal sex trade ring and seeks revenge. This is the intense reality of The Dirt Chronicles, Kristyn Dunnion's stunning debut story collection. In these linked tales, urban outlaws in Toronto map out their plans to take over the world while living collectively in an abandoned chair factory, destined for demolition according to a real estate gentrification plan. Their community is infiltrated by the King, a dirty cop bent on obliterating the city's defiant underclass and exterminating the group's rogue members; in order to survive, they may have to betray what they value most: autonomy, friendship, and newly discovered concepts of freedom.
Audacious and loud, The Dirt Chronicles is a thrashing three-chord rejection of mainstream culture and the powers-that-be, and a combustible homage to class rebellion.
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Kristyn Dunnion. (2012). The Dirt Chronicles. Arsenal Pulp Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kristyn Dunnion. 2012. The Dirt Chronicles. Arsenal Pulp Press.
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Kristyn Dunnion: Kristyn Dunnion is a self-professed "Lady punk warrior" and the author of the novels Big Big Sky, Missing Matthew, and Mosh Pit (all Red Deer Press). She studied English Literature and Theatre at McGill University and earned a Masters Degree in English at the University of Guelph.
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Lambda Literary Award finalist
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Lambda Literary Award finalist
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Contents
9 Migrant
33 Two Ton: An Opera in Three Acts
59 Stargazing at Eddie's
69 Seven-Dollar Blow
86 Happy House
98 Toddlers and Tiaras
109 Pig House Party
131 Shaker Baker
151 Big House
175 Piggy Goes to Market
191 Ferret Hunt: A Three-Act Play
220 Ledge
231 Bush- bisacCodes
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