Artist's Book
Postcards
Talleen HacikyanPostcards is a collection of eight postcard stories--extremely short literary works, no more than a few hundred words.
Setting plays a key role in determining the emotional tone in each of these fictional stories. Quirky situations and surreal atmosphere pervade these tales, written and illustrated by Talleen Hacikyan.
Postcards is a house-shaped accordion book. It is available in a deluxe clothbound limited edition of fifteen, printed on archival paper. It also comes in a board bound version with a cloth spine in a limited edition of fifty.
Deluxe clothbound edition 350 $
Board bound edition 30 $Read four stories from Postcards
The Birdman of Courville
Angels and Lemons
Home Movies
Grass HousesJury’s comments for Postcards at the 2005 Writers’ Union of Canada Postcard Story Competition:
"Stark, beautiful and evocative. Poetic word pairings, vivid images"
"This is good tight prose."Postcards can be consulted at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, in Montreal.
Postcards was launched on December 8 2006 at La Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal.For purchase
art@talleen.net
(514) 485-2962