#1 BC bestselling book of 2017Winner of the 2018 BC Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice AwardA collection of stories chronicling the characters and dramas that capture life in small coastal communities.In this story collection, Pat Carney follows the rhythms of...

Editeur : Touchwood Editions
Parution : 2017-04-04

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Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards). Winner of a gold IPPY. The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A teenage boy spends a summer with his hard-livin’,...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2017-03-30

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Stories, Tall Tales, and Truths of Newfoundland and Labrador In this diverse collection of stories, Hubert Furey transports the reader back in time to an outport culture in which he lived and which has long since disappeared. It was a time when the “slapper” was deemed...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2017-03-24

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Stories, Tall Tales, and Truths of Newfoundland and Labrador In this diverse collection of stories, Hubert Furey transports the reader back in time to an outport culture in which he lived and which has long since disappeared. It was a time when the “slapper” was deemed...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2017-03-24

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Shortlisted for the City of Hamilton book award At times comic, tender, dark, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin’s latest fiction collection marvels at the strangeness, charm, and beauty that is contemporary life in the quantum world. Ranging from short story to...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2016-12-21

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In Teardown, Clea Young navigates the whitewater of relationships – familial and romantic, between friends new and old. Her stories seize on instances that, at the outset, appear benign – a woman encountering an old boyfriend on a BC ferry, a father chaperoning his...

Editeur : Freehand Books
Parution : 2016-10-01

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The collective force of McCrosky’s Lifting Weights is a raw adventure into the unknown. In "Death TV" you meet a butterfly collector whose explorations into violent mayhem in television programming draws out our society’s preoccupation with watching people die as a...

Editeur : Thistledown Press
Parution : 2016-09-15

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Like the many surfaces of a gemstone, the varied aspects of human experience link the short stories in this collection, titled Aspects of Nature. Themes of finding one’s identity; conflicts of family, career and romance; loneliness, death, loss, and feelings of...

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2016-05-05

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Gianna Patriarca is an award-winning author of eight books of poetry, one children’s book, and a collection of short stories inspired by the lives of Italian Canadian women, All My Fallen Angelas (2016). Her writing is extensively anthologized and appears on the course...

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2016-04-15

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Hugh Garner’s Best Stories received the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2015-05-21

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Hugh Garner’s Best Stories received the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2015-05-21

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The Little Washer of Sorrows is a collection of short stories that explores what happens when the expected and usual are replaced with elements of the rare and strange.The book’s emotional impact is created with strong, richly drawn characters facing universal issues in...

Editeur : Thistledown Press
Parution : 2015-03-15

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A man seeking the high life realizes too late that he has destroyed his possibilities for happiness. Four junkies wait anxiously for a drug dealer who seems to have forgotten their existence.A gang leader attempts to navigate racism, greed, and mutiny within the ranks....

Editeur : Thistledown Press
Parution : 2015-03-15

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In her first collection of short fiction, dee Hobsbawn-Smith creates protagonists struggling to navigate the troubles common to life everywhere, including children attempting to make their parents proud, the collapse of romantic relationships, and dealing with death and...

Editeur : Thistledown Press
Parution : 2015-03-15

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From the Canadian Short Story Library, twelve stories from Desmond Pacey, a major figure in Canadian Literature and criticism. The twelve stories are typical of Pacey's story-telling technique and what emerges from them is a distinctive, even powerful optimism, charity,...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2014-12-08

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From the Canadian Short Story Library, twelve stories from Desmond Pacey, a major figure in Canadian Literature and criticism. The twelve stories are typical of Pacey's story-telling technique and what emerges from them is a distinctive, even powerful optimism, charity,...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2014-12-08

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Why do we keep secrets and why do we confess them? The nine tales in this collection, all told in the first person, are each spun around a well-kept secret, willingly or inadvertently confessed. Sometimes the secrets are at the core of the narrator’s life, other times...

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2014-10-15

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This collection presents an arc of historical experience of Jewish child and teen life during the Shoah. Across Central and Eastern Europe, the young and hunted in these stories hide in forests; survive in ghettoes and camps; and assume new identities. The stories in...

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2014-10-15

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In Prerequisites for Sleep, her first published short story collection, Jennifer L. Stone has created a fictional world rich with dilemmas. From the young unwed mother paying the price for both her own mistakes as well as her family's, to the woman whose unexpected...

Editeur : Signature Editions
Parution : 2014-10-08

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Sean Johnston will leave readers smiling at the acrobatics of his words and techniques in this eagerly anticipated second short story collection after the Relit award winning A Day Does Not Go By. Several stories, such as “We Don’t Celebrate That”, explore the...

Editeur : Thistledown Press
Parution : 2014-10-01

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