Vital Signs

• Co-op available. • Galleys available by request. • North American Print Campaign. General interest: The New York Times, NYTBR, LA Times, LARB, Harper’s, Washington Post Trades: Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal Canadian Interest: Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Quill & Quire, Canadian Notes and Queries, Winnipeg Free Press • Online and Social Media Campaign. Pitch interviews and reviews to New Yorker’s Book Bench, Bookslut, Shelf Awareness, Slate, Salon, LARB, NYRB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Quarterly Conversation. • General Ebook Plan. Ebook available. Biblioasis and author websites.

Alice Munro wrote that Metcalf "comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer can get.""One of Canada's best kept literary secrets."-Harper's Magazine "Hilarious, touching and delightful ...brilliant concision and understated humor."-Los Angeles Times Vital Signs brings together the collected novellas by a modern master of the form, by a writer who Alice Munro has said "often comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer can get." Elegant, wry, compassionate, and mischievous, with echoes of Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh, and Muriel Spark, Vital Signs will pierce both funny bone and heart. The author of more than a dozen books, John Metcalf is one of the most celebrated writers, editors, and anthologists in Canada.