The Persistence of Pryvett (against odds great and Small & obstacles multifarious and malevolent)
About this audiobook
I met Pryvett on New Year’s Eve 1999.
He was an improbable personage. At first glance, Pryvett resembled a melted snowman, a shapeshifter stuck between two ambitious shapes, but he was, clearly, not to be underestimated.
He was drinking beer and tequila and wine coolers and smoking a pipe. He was the friend of friends, and I never really caught the connection Pryvett had to them other than he had once “gamed” with them.
As the night wore on and outrage after outrage poured out Pryvett, my wife asked me (as other girls in the room were asking their boyfriends), “Who is that guy?”
To which a friend, still choking on his drink, laughing at the freshest mordant bon mot from Pryvett, croaked, “He’s the the love-child of Don Rickles and Andrew ‘Dice’ Clay!”
About the author
Matthew St. Amand is a life-long resident of Essex County. His two most recent published books include The Kilominator: Cycling Through a Global Pandemic In Search of Sanity & Stability (www.kilominator.com), telling the story of his obsession with cycling that began during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Gas of Tank: A Canadian Law Enforcement Odyssey 1979 – 2019 (www.gasoftank.com), which chronicles a friend’s four-decade law enforcement career.
Matthew has also authored seven plays (two of them performed by Post Productions: Shelter in Place, 2018, and Negatunity, 2021—his play Tether will be produced in 2024).
Beyond these works, Matthew regularly contributes articles to The Drive Magazine and Windsor Life Magazine.
Over the past thirty years, his short fiction has appeared in The Toronto Review of International Writing, Opium Magazine, FRiGG Magazine, as well as numerous online publications. His prose poetry has appeared in The North American Review, Agni, and Phoebe. His other books include a collection of short fiction titled, As My Sparks Fly Upward (2004), a volume of poetry, Forever & a Day (2004), a suspense novel, Randham Acts (2006), and a comic novel, Loitering with Intent to Mope (2009).
His blog, The Kilominator Chronicles on Wordpress (www.kilominator.wordpress.
Matthew lives in LaSalle with his wife and two sons.
