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Spat Ryan has demons. They haunt him by day and share his drink at night. Raised in Montreal by a bagman for the Irish mob,Spat has fictionalized or ignored chunks of his life too painful to recall. A chance meeting with an old friend of his father’s in a bar on the...
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Anvil Press
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2010-11-12
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Best of 2010 Pick, Uptown Magazine
Meet Walter Finch, an ungainly kid who survives his cloying suburban childhood to make it only as far as the local mall, where he rises through the ranks to become manager of a shoe store. Unlike his other childhood friends who either...
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Anvil Press
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2010-11-12
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Winner, 2011 ReLit Award
From the author of Pontypool Changes Everything, Ravenna Gets is a new collection of “wheeled” stories that continue the author’s exploration of “apocalypse ?ction.”
In a single convulsion of homicide, the population of Ravenna tries to erase...
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Anvil Press
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2010-10-15
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Finalist, Books in Canada/Amazon.ca First Novel Award
The Beautiful Dead End is a visceral crime thriller that takes the reader on an existential journey to the “other side” and almost back again. In a bizarre, shadowy interzone populated by disturbing characters, our...
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Anvil Press
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2009-03-20
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Longlisted for the ReLit Award (2005)
Foozlers is a 24-hour “Odyssey” that runs a juggernaut through the high- and lowlands of Vancouver. Jerry Lowe is the reluctant driver of a getaway car for two sketchy junkies on the make. A pair of cops spend a shift wobbling on...
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Anvil Press
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2008-12-05
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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...
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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...
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University of Ottawa Press
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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...
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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...
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Anvil Press
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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...
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Anvil Press
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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...
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Anvil Press
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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...
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Coach House Books
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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...
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Anvil Press
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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...
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Anvil Press
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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...
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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...
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Anvil Press
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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...
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Anvil Press
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1999-01-16
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