Wd Valgardson Analysis

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W. D. Valgardson's childhood in an Icelandic-Canadian fishing village has provided themes and settings for much of his fiction. He is especially interested in the effects of isolation on individuals in remote settings. Reviewing Valgardson's 1975 short story collection God Is Not a Fish Inspector, Adrian Vale of the Irish Times commented: "Mr. Valgardson is an authoritative writer; he leaves the reader with no inclination to gainsay him or the truth of the events he describes." Even when not literally exploring such isolated locations and people, Valgardson sticks to the theme of the outsider, as in his prize-winning 1999 short story collection The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories. Valgardson grew up in Gimli, a fishing village on Lake