In early June, 1964, the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls burns to the ground and its vulnerable residents are thrust out into the world. The orphans, who know no other home, find their lives changed in an instant. Arrangements are...
Canadian literature
- Author:Orca Book PublishersSummary:
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
The fifty essays in Second Words span the period from 1962 to 1980 and reveal Margaret Atwood's views on feminism, Canadian literature, the creative process, nationalism, sexism, as well as critical commentary on such writers as Erica...
- Author:Davis, Brian JosephSummary:
A copy editor suffers brain damage from West Nile virus and is suddenly filled with cannibalistic violence and award-winning minimalist poetry. (It’s a little like Awakenings, but directed by David Cronenberg.)
Mayor...
- Author:Rosenbaum, RichardSummary:
In Revenge of the Grand Narrative, the oldest man in the world, an activist with a suspiciously persuasive singing voice, and the author of the most anticipated debut novel ever set out to investigate a mysteriously synchronistic...
- Author:Wunker, Erin, McGregor, Hannah, Rak, JulieSummary:
CanLit-the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry-has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted...
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Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in...
- Author:Fiamengo, JaniceSummary:
Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian...
- Author:Hugelschaffer, DaveSummary:
When a small fire starts to creep through the underbrush deep within a Montana forest valley, Porter Cassel is brought in to organize the firefighters charged with containing it. The fire moves quickly from bad to worse, rapidly scaling...
- Author:Comeau, JoeySummary:
Jackie has a map of the city on the wall of her bedroom, with a green pin for each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie’s mother passed...
- Author:Scheier, JacobSummary:
Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheier’s debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young man’s mother instigates and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become...
- Author:Bowdring, PaulSummary:
After a thirty-year exile in Toronto, self-described "mid-listing" Newfoundland author James Nightingale leaves behind a failed marriage to a successful classical musician, who has taken up with an avant-garde composer, and a middling,...
- Author:Keahey, Deborah Lou.Summary:
Traditional approaches to Prairie literature have focussed on the significance of "the land" in attempts to make a place into a home. This emphasis on the importance of landscape as a defining and guiding feature for writers...
- Author:McKegney, SamSummary:
The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons...
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Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood's opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of...
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Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood's opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of...
- Author:Poitras, Marie-HélèneSummary:
Après Soudain le Minotaure (Prix Anne-Hébert 2003), Marie Hélène Poitras livre douze histoires mettant en scène des personnages au bord de la désillusion, tous à la recherche d’une sorte de grâce, que seuls les plus chanceux atteignent...
- Author:Richards, David Adams, Steenhout, IvanSummary:
L’histoire se déroule dans une région forestière du Nouveau-Brunswick entre1960 et 2000 et s’inspire, en fond de toile, des empires à la Irving et autres grandes papetières. C’est un monde sauvage qui sent la pulpe et l’épinette, peuplé...
- Author:Chaput, SimoneSummary:
À vingt ans, Ariane Morency s'interroge sur son avenir. Son jeune idéalisme vient se heurter au cynisme de son père, un artiste désabusé, qui croit que « le bonheur, c'est une belle ordure ». Pendant qu'ils discutent, la vie va, semant...
- Author:Desjardins, SergineSummary:
Nous sommes en 1847. Alors que les lépreux sont transférés de l’île Sheldrake au nouveau lazaret de Tracadie, Isa, toujours bien portante, perd espoir. Bien que la maladie ne semble avoir aucune emprise sur la jeune femme, l’isolement,...
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A groundbreaking anthology from territory that is now known as Saskatchewan, Kisiskâciwan contains rich, oral narratives from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, Gros Ventres, and Métis cultures; speeches and letters by Treaty Chiefs...