The first novel from beloved and award-winning writer Marina EndicottBessie Smith Connolly has lived with her Nova Scotia grandparents since she was small. But at seventeen—grieving the death of her steadfast grandfather, smarting from a split with the boy she loves—she...

Editeur : Freehand Books
Parution : 2008-09-01

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Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his relatives’ Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer. It recounts the crises he faces during a troubled marriage and the great stock market crash of...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2008-04-19

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Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his relatives’ Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer. It recounts the crises he faces during a troubled marriage and the great stock market crash of...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2008-04-19

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Longlisted for the ReLit Award Editor's Pick, Vancouver Sun Dirtbags is a novel about reckoning?with one?s past, one?s choices, and one?s expectations for the future. Spider is a scrappy kid growing up in rural B.C., and when a tragic event causes her world to implode...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2007-11-29

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Longlisted for the ReLit Award Best Fiction 2006, Ottawa Xpress Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit is a singularly Canadian novel featuring crime, culture, and sports. Written in the vein of John Kennedy Toole (Confederacy of Dunces) and JP Donleavy, Dead Man in the...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2006-03-20

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The Dreamlife of Bridges is the debut novel from Vancouver writer Robert Strandquist. Leo is a middle-aged, divorced handyman capable of mending almost anything outside of himself.The denial of his son’s death, and his inability to deal with his own pain, has rendered...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2006-03-20

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First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers alike. This is both a single novel and three separate novels in...

Editeur : Coach House Books
Parution : 2006-03-08

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Longlisted for the ReLit Award (2006) Going to New Orleans is the story of Lewis King, a jazz trumpet player who lands a gig in the Big Easy. King is a genius on cornet, but his private life is emotionally, morally, and financially bankrupt. He’s a heavy drinker and...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2004-03-15

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Finalist, ReLit Award Amazon.ca's 50 Essential Canadian Books selection First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, Salvage King, Ya! is a novel firmly rooted in Canada’s favourite national pastime—hockey. Critics have called Salvage King, Ya! “the great Canadian...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2003-10-05

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Arachne Manteia is a road rider, a traveling sales rep who drives a classic Mercedes and peddles women's underwear for a living. From her working class childhood to her comfortable adult life,Arachne refuses the conventional and embraces whatever adventure fate throws...

Editeur : Red Deer Press
Parution : 2002-09-10

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Winner, 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest (1999) Winner, Inaugural ReLit Award (2001) Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, Skin is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2000-01-16

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Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize A blackly comic new novel from Vancouver author Grant Buday, based on his eight glorious years working in a mass production bakery. Dickensian in magnitude, White Lung is a sardonic portrait of B.C.’s racial conflicts and chaotic...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 1999-01-16

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