In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing...
Canadian fiction
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Auteur:Bump, Gabriel, Chang-Eppig, Rita, Cuti, Vanessa, Duque, Jenzo, Hobson, Brandon, Kochai, Jamil Jan, Krauss, Nicole, Means, David, Murray, Yxta Maya, Osunde, Eloghosa, Pek, Jane, Peyton, Tracey Rose, Romanosky, Christa, Saunders, George, Sigers, Shanteka, Soileau, Stephanie, Vijay, Madhuri, Washington, Bryan, Wilson, Kevin, Zhang, C PamSommaire: - Auteur:Han, BeckySommaire:
When the narrator of this fun and silly book is startled by the buzzing of a bee, she sets off on an adventure that sees her running from community to community, trying to lose her buzzing companion. When she has run clear across...
- Auteur:Curtis, HerbSommaire:
An invasion? For teenagers Dryfly Ramsey and Shadrack Nash, poor and ignorant in the world’s terms but rich in the lore of the magical Miramichi, the annual influx of American anglers, with their money, fishing gear, and thirst for...
- Auteur:Deshaye, JoelSommaire:
"The first historically broad and in-depth study of the Canadian Western, its relationship to the American genre, and its shifting place within Canada's national and regional literary traditions. The Western, with its stoic cowboys and...
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Auteur:Klinck, ToddSommaire:Winner, 3-Day Novel Contest.
Tacones is a hangout for a subculture of outlaws and rejects--crackhead murderers, transvestite prostitutes, biastogerontophiles, hustler boys, and addicts–all painfully beyond denial, searching for...
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Auteur:SHIELDS, CarolSommaire:Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how...
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Auteur:Farrell, JennSommaire:Longlisted for a ReLit Award (2007). Alcuin Society Citation for Excellence in Design.
The stories in Sugar Bush & Other Stories deal with gender relations, love, and sex in a frank way. Most of the pieces feature female...
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Auteur:Coady, Lynn, Endicott, MarinaSommaire:Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Thomas Head Raddall Award. Shortlisted, Governor General's Award for Fiction. She's depressed, they say....
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Auteur:Macdonald, EdSommaire: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...
- Auteur:Ferguson, TrevorSommaire:
Sous l’aile protectrice du chef de la tribu des Corbeaux, deux hommes, hantés par le souvenir d’une jeune fille assassinée, se lancent dans une chasse à l’homme effrénée, mais se retrouvent bientôt traqués eux-mêmes par Morgan, l’homme...
- Auteur:Poitras, Marie-HélèneSommaire:
Novembre, un soir de neige et de violence. Dans un appartement de Montréal, une rencontre qui n’aurait jamais dû avoir lieu. Le quotidien bouleversé par l’arrivée d’un être venu apporter la peur en cadeau. Quelques mois plus tard,...
- Auteur:Richler, MordecaiSommaire:
Moses Berger est encore enfant quand il entend pour la première fois parler de Solomon Gursky. Ce personnage mystérieux deviendra bientôt pour lui une obsession qui l'incitera à mener une vaste enquête aux quatre coins du monde. Toute...
- Auteur:Power, Craig FrancisSommaire:
Think the world can’t get any crazier? Think again. Set in near-future Toronto, Skeet Love tells the story of Shane, a conspiracy theorist and aspiring rapper; Nina, his girlfriend; and Brit, the couple’s lover. Wildly suspecting the...
- Auteur:Hall, HarronSommaire:
A little girl meets a water spirit who asks her to protect and care for the water.
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Auteur:David, CharlieSommaire:Shadowlands is a collection of heartfelt and sometimes heartbreaking short stories from well-known actor and entrepreneur Charlie David that explore the passion and pain of gay sexuality. Ancient myths are re-imagined with an exciting...
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Auteur:Herrera, MiaSommaire:After her plans for the future are disrupted by an unexpected breakup, Benni, born and raised in northern Ontario, seeks escape from her everyday routine by visiting her father in the Philippines – the fantastical land of ghosts and...
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Auteur:Giles, W. MarkSommaire:Finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award.
Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond in the small town of Seep during a dugout-clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a visiting team of barnstorming...
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Auteur:Glover, Douglas HSommaire:An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013, A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013, and a Quill & Quire Best Book of 2013, Longlisted, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
Savage Love marks the long-awaited literary return of one...
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Auteur:Jarman, Mark AnthonySommaire: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...
- Auteur:Moser, EliseSommaire:
Taking its title from a story in the collection, this anthology brings together the best prose writing in Quebec—all short pieces—from the winners and finalists of the last three years of the Quebec Writing Competition. Montreal’s CBC...
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