John Metcalf 
Vital Signs 
The Collected Novellas

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,
Vital Signs will pierce both funny bone and heart.

About the author

John Metcalf was Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill until 2005, and is now Fiction Editor at Biblioasis. A scintillating writer and an almost magisterial editor and anthologist, he is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including
Standing Stones: Selected Stories,
Adult Entertainment,
Going Down Slow, and
Kicking Against the Pricks. He lives in Ottawa with his wife, Myrna.