Holy Days of Obligation is a collection of short stories which weaves together the family history of a working-class Catholic family. Set in industrial Ontario, the stories are narrated by Bertie, who is the oldest of nine children. Bertie uneasily straddles two worlds:...

Editeur : Signature Editions
Parution : 2012-10-09

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Winner of the W.O. Mitchell/City of Calgary Award A debut collection, these stories are set in the corporeal world of adult endeavour: the mall, the office, the subdivision. It’s these settings that W. Mark Giles exploits—locking his sights on eerily familiar...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2012-07-01

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Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award Monday Night Man is a back alley view of East Vancouver netherworlds. Horst Nunn, Ray Bunce, and Boyle Rupp are a trio of middle-aged, underemployed, intelligent “plungers” striving for redemption through humour and long shots at...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2012-07-01

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The Devil You Know is the follow-up volume to Farrell’s critically acclaimed debut collection, Sugar Bush & Other Stories. These stories deal with sex, love, work, birth, and death in alternately moving, shocking, funny, and at times devastating ways. Whether these...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2012-07-01

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Valery the Great is a crackling, electric collection of dark humour that follows the bizarre and beautiful lives of its protagonists. Sometimes sweet and gentle, sometimes sharply sarcastic, the unique narrative voices in this collection are always powerfully...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2012-05-24

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The stories in Night Watch, a new collection from Susan Zettell, delve deep into dark waters. Zettell looks unflinchingly at life's bountiful sorrows: the loss felt by abandoned children, the sudden intrusion of sickness or death, the fierce love suffered by the mother...

Editeur : Signature Editions
Parution : 2012-04-17

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A small-town Bill Clinton look-alike agonizes over whether to accept a tempting offer from the CIA; an obese young woman finds love in a prairie cafe; a lonely child encounters a supernatural being; a teenage girl struggles with a sexual predator as she hitchhikes on...

Editeur : Signature Editions
Parution : 2012-03-09

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Who has never encountered a bully?Who has never told—or been told—a story of a bully? With an uncanny insight into what bullies are all about, Nick Fonda brings sensitivity and even humour to an otherwise sinister topic. Everybody knows that bullying is not limited to...

Editeur : Baraka Books
Parution : 2011-09-12

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A treasure chest of exceptional stories by one of Canadas classic authorsall now available in one volume. Ernest Buckler, best known as the author of the Canadian classic, The Mountain and the Valley, never achieved the lasting fame he deserved. His first story was...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07

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Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avant-gardist,...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2010-07-01

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Butterfly Tears is a collection of seventeen pieces of short fiction that depict the experiences of Chinese immigrant women facing the challenges of life in a new country. The stories are set in different parts of China, Canada, and to a lesser extent in the United...

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2009-11-01

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Butterfly Tears is a collection of short fiction that depicts the experiences of Chinese immigrant women facing the challenges of life in a new country. The stories are set in different parts of China, Canada, and the United States and examine Chinese women’s...

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2009-11-01

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Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist,...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2009-09-19

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Finalist, Trillium Book Award The stories in Animal depict people on the brink of major life change. Often at a crossroads they are oblivious to, Leggat?s characters seem to be captured in a cinematic slo-mo, teetering on the edge of something unknown, heroically...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2009-03-20

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Drinkin’ rye and water with Grandma. Guns in False Creek. Frat boy homies from the North Delta ghetto. Samuel L. Jackson. Phantom Lord & Metallica. A kid who’s got the hots for his mom… Hunh? That’s right. It’s all here in this collection of immediate, lean and visceral...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2008-12-13

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Pamela Stewart is a self-described ?literary proctologist,? and her writing often looks into places that people generally don?t want to look. The stories in Elysium are about the difficulties of life we all encounter as human beings, the fragility of life?the physical,...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2008-05-01

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Finalist, ReLit Awards (shortlist) Black Rabbit & Other Stories is a debut collection of great intensity and versatility. The stories range from the fantastic to the gritty, from urban dystopias to worlds of dreamlike possibility. Even in their frequent explorations of...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2007-07-08

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One Day It Happens is an eclectic collection of short stories by Mary Lou Dickinson, which deal in myriad forms with communication or lack thereof in the lives of the characters.One of the universal factors in human existence is the need to connect with one another....

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2007-05-01

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One Day It Happens is an eclectic collection of short stories by Mary Lou Dickinson, which deal in myriad forms with communication or lack thereof in the lives of the characters.One of the universal factors in human existence is the need to connect with one another....

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2007-05-01

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Fiction Pick, Broken Pencil Magazine Suburban Pornography is contemporary literature, which documents Canadian urban life in a raw and naked manner. The prose is stripped--minimalist, direct, urgent, unflinching. The stories revolve around ordinary characters and...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2006-10-25

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