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...
Short stories, Canadian
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Author:Cooper, PaigeSummary: -
Author:Blodgett, AstridSummary:Through mesmerizing forays into characterization, voicing, and narrative technique, and with a clean economy of style rare even in short fiction, Astrid Blodgett conjures the moral and existential freight of her fully fledged characters...
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Author:Petersen, AliceSummary:An old record player; an unposted letter; a pearl necklace never purchased; a badly written poem from the woman you love: tokens, gifts, and objects lost or left behind, desired or not wanted at all are the starting points for the...
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Author:Glover, DouglasSummary:The beguiling "Woman Gored by Bison Lives" is from Douglas Glover's 1991 Governor General Award-nominated story collection, A Guide to Animal Behaviour. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also...
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Author:Powell, Kerry-LeeSummary:"Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, these deftly written stories are populated by barkeeps, good men down on their luck,...
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Author:Hogan Safer, CatherineSummary:One has lost a child and paints her house blue, another has found a not-so-handy man she can't get rid of; one perches in a tree and observes the neighbourhood, and yet another goes off into the woods with Jesus. These are some of the "...
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Author:Wangersky, RussellSummary:Winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, 2013, short-listed for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and finalist for the 2012 BMO Winterset Award From critically acclaimed and award-winning writer, Russell Wangersky, comes...
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Author:Kuitenbrouwer, KathrynSummary:Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's haunting "What Had Become of Us," is from her 2003 debut book of short fiction, Way Up.Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection.
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Author:Hobsbawn-Smith, DeeSummary:In her first collection of short fiction, dee Hobsbawn-Smith creates protagonists struggling to navigate the troubles common to life everywhere, including children attempting to make their parents proud, the collapse of romantic...
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Author:Flood, CynthiaSummary:In these twelve stories that unfold over a few hours or a weekend or five decades, adults deceive themselves about their motives - greed, desire for control, jealousy, fear, ambition. With unflinching realism, reminiscent of William...
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Author:Summary:West by Northwest is a classic collection of British Columbia stories, beginning with Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst's ribald creation myth "The Raven and the First Men" and closing with Edith Robinson's brilliant depiction of a Native...
- Author:Douglas, RhondaSummary:
These ten strikingly original stories explore love and escape--how we escape to love, escape through love, and escape ourselves and hold on to love. Together, the stories of Welcome to the Circus highlight the courageous, acrobatic...
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Author:Douglas, RhondaSummary:Rhonda Douglas’s debut collection dazzles with its daring and dangerous prose. Welcome to the Circus, where every moment is a tight-rope act, precariously balancing on the edge of destruction. In these stories, a choir processes its...
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Author:Johnston, SeanSummary:In an inviting and challenging series of fictions, this book will leave readers puzzling while they smile at the acrobatics of his words and techniques. Some of the stories border on "flash fiction" where incidents rather than...
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A Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Ten years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories. Migrating from Central America to the American South, from Metro...
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Author:Weaver, KeithSummary:Written over a period of three years and across a range of styles and lengths, Walking with Albert is Keith Weaver's first short story compilation. These stories range from micro-narratives of a few pages in length to what could be...
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Author:Dean, LeesaSummary:Thirteen stories that expose the complications of women who dare to deviate from the status quo. In the land of fiction, women are too often cast as inherently good—typically kind, always considerate, and traditionally in possession of...
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Author:Lloy, Susan ESummary:Angst, seduction, escape and extinction control these many tales-a whisper in the ear convinces a lady to take the plunge, another to take up surfing, and a young man to jump in front of a moving train-and there is joy in settling a...
- Author:Fadanni, LaurentSummary:
Corsé, généreux, vif... Dans ce recueil enivrant de vingt nouvelles, Laurent Fadanni, poète et vigneron, laisse Bacchus lui inspirer des personnages savoureux et hauts en couleur. Ainsi, un vin frais et léger tel qu'un...
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Author:Bertin, KrisSummary:A woman becomes obsessed with a story about her family from 1890-when a naked, mute girl stumbled onto their property-and whether or not it really happened. A self-help guru and his chief strategist take their most affluent and unstable...
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