Frances Price--tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature--is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son, Malcolm, is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development....
Scotiabank Giller Prize 2018
This award recognizes excellence in Canadian fiction – long format or short stories — and is Canada's largest purse for a literary award.
Thanks to a partnership with the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted titles are available in accessible formats from NNELS on the date they're announced nationally. Learn more about the program from the Scotiabank Giller Prize website.
Check out the 2018 Shortlist titles.
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Auteur:deWitt, PatrickSommaire: - Auteur:Moore, LisaSommaire:
Taking us from the Fjord of Eternity to the streets of St. John's and the swamps of Orlando, these stories show us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives. A missing rock god may have...
- Auteur:Dupont, ÉricSommaire:
A big fat whopper of a tall tale that bounces around from provincial Rivière-du-Loup in 1919 to Nagasaki, 1990s Berlin, Rome, and beyond.
- Auteur:Thúy, KimSommaire:
The youngest of four children and the only girl, Vi was given a name that meant 'precious, tiny one,' destined to be cosseted and protected, the family's little treasure. Daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father...
- Auteur:Cooper, PaigeSommaire:
Fantastical, magnetic, and harsh - these are the women in Paige Cooper's debut short story collection Zolitude. They are women who built time machines when they were nine, who buy plane tickets for lovers who won't arrive. They are...
