Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
-
-
c2010., Adult, McArthur Call No: QWF Fic Bis Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the collection of stories, Nadine Bismuth treats us to a series of sharp, witty, but compassionate portraits of modern urban women torn between a desire for male companionship and the trials and tribulations of navigating couplehood in the real world..."--Back cover.
-
-
2015., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Arc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "With its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips to nowhere, Samuel Archibald?s Arvida, the portrait of a remote mining town in French Canada, reads like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy. A 25,000-copy Bestseller in French, it does for northern Quebec what Faulkner did for the south."--Publisher.
-
-
-- Barbara Klein-Muskrat, then and now2012., Inanna Publications Call No: 813.54 K64t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
-
-
c2010., University of Alberta Press Call No: Fic Wie Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Rudy Wiebeœs reputation is based on his novels and non-fiction, which have focused on Aboriginal themes and his Mennonite heritage. Though he is not widely known as a short story writer, a half-Úcenturyœs worth of his efforts in this genre have now been collected in a single volume.Divided into four sections, the 51 entries in Collected Stories showcase Wiebeœs diverse concerns. The first section, which is the most lively, includes tales of warriors, Chiefs, and the First Nationsœ experiences prior to the imposition of restrictions on their land and freedom by the Crown. The other sections include stories on Mennonite history, Western Canada, and more personal character sketches. In one story, a writer discusses poetry with a potential mistress. In another, set in 1980, the voice of long-dead Alberta Premier William Aberhart castigates contemporary citizens of Rose Country for wasting their wealth. Thereœs even a fictional interview with Wiebe in which the Saskatchewan-born writer claims to be English.Aesthetic critics (notably John Metcalf) have long claimed that Wiebeœs fiction betrays a wooden ear and strained earnestness, and these stories show that this claim has a certain validity. Wiebeœs parents spoke Low German, which has no word for fiction·; the only categories for stories were truth· and lies.· One cannot help but notice how much of his fiction is based in fact, and wonder if the Mennonite binary view of literature hasnœt remained foundational. Elsewhere, Goetheœs German Romanticism is clearly a dominant influence, one that aligns with an interest in pre-contact Aboriginal cultures and a clearly evident sensitivity to the marginal, the weak, and the natural world.
-
-
By Fagan, Cary2017., Adult, Astoria Call No: Fic Fag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "These thirty-five brief stories--and the found photographs that inspired them--are by turns realistic and surreal, bloody and tender, delightful and appalling. Award-winning author Cary Fagan has created a mesmerizing series of narrative tales, giving readers a vivid peek into lives of strangers. A man hangs onto a runaway horse. A woman paints in the nude. A shop window advertising a sale on blankets hides much more behind it. A lone tombstone on a hill speaks of a years-long feud. The stories--capturing portraits, objects, moments in time--while dizzyingly varied, form a single image that, in the words of the author, 'belong to one history, found in an album that might belong to any of us.' Deftly marrying vision and language with memory and imagination, Fagan paints an intimate portrait of forgotten lives that is profound, generous, and highly entertaining."--From publisher.
-
-
2016., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: Fic Ler Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Catherine Leroux's first novel, translated into English brilliantly by Lazer Lederhendler, ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she absorbed her twin sister's body in the womb and that she has two sets of DNA; a girl in the deep South pushes her sister out of the way of a speeding train, losing her legs; and a political couple learn that they are non-identical twins separated at birth. The Party Wall establishes Leroux as one of North America's most intelligent and innovative young authors."--From publisher.
-
-
By Moser, Elise2014., Véhicule Press Call No: Fic Mos Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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.
-
-
2017., General, House of Anansi Press Call No: IND Fic Sim Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of stories and songs that explores the subject of decolonization.
-
-
2017., Esplanade Books Call No: QWF Nov Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Esplanade books.
