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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.
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2015., Dalkey Archive Press Call No: QWF 843.6 B665a Edition: First ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Atavisms is an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present, and beyond. These thirteen stories, though not linked in the traditional sense, abound in common threads. Like family traits passed down through the generations, the attitudes and actions of a rich cast of characters reverberate, quietly but deeply, over generations. Here is a group portrait of the individual lives that together shape a collective history. Atavisms has been shortlisted for the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.
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c2010., Adult, Tsar Books Call No: QWF BLK Fic Tho Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Stories of triumph and despair present a gallery of characters, Caribbean immigrants struggling against the odds, as they make their way through the maze of Montréal urban life."--Back cover.
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2023., Now or Never Publishing Call No: NEW QWF Fic Llo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Age is the great divider. One side fused of fire and lust, the other undetected like fallout. The characters in this collection have been plucked and blown through time like pollen on the wind, often rooting themselves in foreign landscapes both beautiful and adverse, sometimes altered, yet always unyielding, ripe for transformation. Nothing Comes Back is a deeply captivating collection by a major literary talent working at the top of her craft.
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1981., Quadrant Editions ; English Dept., Concordia University [distributor] Call No: Fic Lux Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Saturday Night at the Forum is an exciting collection of stories by new anglophone writers of Quebec that is wide-ranging in content and form. Several writers make their first appearance in print here, two of them with award-winning stories,.
