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...
Short stories, Canadian
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Author:Blodgett, AstridSummary: -
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: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@...
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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: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: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:Conlin, Christy AnnSummary:In these evocative and startling stories, we meet people navigating the elemental forces of love, life, and death. An insomniac on Halifax’s moonlit streets. A runaway bride. A young woman accused of a brutal murder. A man who must live...
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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: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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Author:Booker, JulieSummary:Up Up Up heralds the arrival of a writer of astonishing range, compassion, and acuity. In this stunning short story collection, Julie Booker grabs the reins from writers like Lydia Millet and Miranda July and takes off at full speed,...
- Author:Novakovich, JosipSummary:
In this latest short-story collection Josip Novakovich explores the shallow roots of emigration as he traverses North America from university post to writing residency. These stories take on an aura of memoir as they invite us into the...
- Author:Novakovich, JosipSummary:
In this latest short-story collection Josip Novakovich explores the shallow roots of emigration as he traverses North America from university post to writing residency. These stunning stories showcase the author at his most intimate,...
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