My Own Devices: Airport Version
- ISBN-10
- 1894994183
- ISBN-13
- 9781894994187
- Series
- My Own Devices
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Montréal : Conundrum Press
- Author
- Corey Frost
Description
Fiction. Left to his own devices in real places around the world, the main character of these stories encounters an intractable dramatis personae: wild-eyed watch vendors and dulcet-voiced dead people, ancient opticians and death-metal beauticians, aggressive pigs and recalcitrant ponies, heavy-hearted tour guides and light-fingered taxi drivers, not to mention a wayward company of fellow travellers and correspondents. Along the way he deploys a gamut of gadgets, including some astonishingly inventive literary devices. AIRPORT VERSION is a revised, expanded edition of MY OWN DEVICES, which was shortlisted for the 2003 Quebec Writers Federation Award for Best First Book, as well as the Relit Award for Short Fiction.
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