In A Thing of Beauty, Marek is tired of being an ordinary family man. "Maybe it was the way the word civilian bit into him, or maybe it was the beer and the conversation Marek had just come from, but his next sentence leapt from his mouth before he had a chance to consider it. He asked, 'You fellas wouldn't know where I could get a handgun?'"; Calvin's first collection. He lives in North Vancouver. 0-88801-270-5

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