Planet EarthStories\nAuthor(s): Nicholas Ruddock\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada, Canada\nImprint: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada\nISBN-13: 9781487013561, 978-1487013561\nSynopsis\nInternational awardwinning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline\n\nIn Planet Earth, Nicholas Ruddock moves nimbly through a range of stylesfrom conventional to flash-fiction to his unique mastery of the long sentencein stories exploring themes of love and passion, all with an awareness of our species-specific carelessness burning up the world.\n\nThis collection showcases a gifted writer at the top of his game, each story fresh and unexpected: the time Mario Vargas Llosa sucker-punched Gabriel Garca Mrquez at a theatre in Mexico City inspires a young Marxist couples violent act of revenge in Toronto years later; an anxious young man finds solace in the employ of Prince, the musician; we get a haunting glimpse of Torontos polio epidemic at its peak i.