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    I'd Never Been Shot for Real Before
    I'd Never Been Shot for Real Before
    I'd Never Been Shot for Real Before
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    I'd Never Been Shot for Real Before

    By Peter Darbyshire

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    I’d Never Been Shot for Real Before takes readers through a post-9/11 world of sex clubs, bankruptcy cubicle farms and guns that definitely go off. This blackly comic short story will be a favourite for fans of Please, Peter Darbyshire’s award-winning and critically acclaimed first book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Darbyshire
    Release dateJun 25, 2014
    ISBN9780986857928
    I'd Never Been Shot for Real Before
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    Peter Darbyshire

    Peter Darbyshire is the author of Please, winner of the ReLit Award for best alternative novel of the year and the Ontario Arts Council’s K.M. Hunter Award for best new book. The Warhol Gang is Darbyshire’s second novel. He has lived in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver.

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