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{"id":6811233583163,"title":"Bonnie Jack","handle":"bonnie-jack","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee novels, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a Glasgow movie theatre. Now living in the United States and facing his impending retirement, Jack and his wife Anne travel to Scotland to track down his long-lost sister. Their journey takes them from their home in a quiet Boston suburb to the impoverished mill towns of Ayrshire, the gray cobbled streets of Glasgow, and the majestic Scottish Highlands. Along the way, Jack gets entangled in local affairs and must confront uncomfortable truths about family, legacy, and the wife he thought he knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBonnie Jack\u003c\/i\u003e, the first stand-alone novel by acclaimed author Ian Hamilton, is a compelling story about the importance of family, self-discovery, and the lengths we go to protect the ones we love.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T12:08:25-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T09:50:01-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Hamilton Ian","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2021-06-01"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40190668177467,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007089","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Bonnie Jack - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":330,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487007089","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40190670536763,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007096","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Bonnie Jack - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007096","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40190670831675,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007102","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Bonnie Jack - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007102","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_66756db1-d373-4e49-a099-66eac6dc5774.jpg?v=1687689607"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_66756db1-d373-4e49-a099-66eac6dc5774.jpg?v=1687689607","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23553574535227,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_66756db1-d373-4e49-a099-66eac6dc5774.jpg?v=1687689607"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_66756db1-d373-4e49-a099-66eac6dc5774.jpg?v=1687689607","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee novels, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a Glasgow movie theatre. Now living in the United States and facing his impending retirement, Jack and his wife Anne travel to Scotland to track down his long-lost sister. Their journey takes them from their home in a quiet Boston suburb to the impoverished mill towns of Ayrshire, the gray cobbled streets of Glasgow, and the majestic Scottish Highlands. Along the way, Jack gets entangled in local affairs and must confront uncomfortable truths about family, legacy, and the wife he thought he knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBonnie Jack\u003c\/i\u003e, the first stand-alone novel by acclaimed author Ian Hamilton, is a compelling story about the importance of family, self-discovery, and the lengths we go to protect the ones we love.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Tamara
Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.
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My Mad Hair Day
Thanks to her wild head of hair, Malie gets all tangled up with an unexpected cast of characters in this funny, stylish twist of a tall tale.
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Martin and the River
Faced with moving away from his beloved river in the country, Martin discovers he can make a meaningful connection to nature in the city, too.
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I Have the Right to Culture
The third book in the award-winning I Have the Right series explores a child’s right to culture, including music, art, dance and much more.
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Told with humor and pity, the novel expertly depicts how easy it is to find, and lose, one's place in the world.","OtherText_Quot_10":"Robert Seethaler is a great storyteller who loves his characters, and he has a wonderful sense of the dramatic which never gets out of hand.","OtherText_Quot_11":"Robert Seethaler writes about all this in a way that is understated yet captivating and very poetically powerful, stylistically confident.","OtherText_Quot_12":"For me, Seethaler is a great storyteller in the tradition of Polgar and Joseph Roth.","OtherText_Review_0":"Seethaler blends tragedy and whimsy to create a bittersweet picture of youthful ideals getting clobbered by external forces.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_1":"Set at a time of lengthening shadows, this is a novel about the sparks that illuminate the dark: of wisdom, compassion, defiance, and courage. 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Told with humor and pity, the novel expertly depicts how easy it is to find, and lose, one's place in the world.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_4":"This powerful work evokes the hate-mongering and mistrust engendered by the war while leavening melancholy with sly wit.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Set in Austria in the 1930s, The Tobacconist tells the story of one young man and his friendship with Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2016-10-08","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Set in Austria in the 1930s, The Tobacconist tells the story of one young man and his friendship with Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna."}
The Tobacconist
Set in Austria in the 1930s, The Tobacconist tells the story of one young man and his friendship with Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.
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Nadia Bozak writes straight to the heart of girlhood, where secrets are both awkward and empowering, as childhood’s magic gives way to the discomfort of adolescence and a young woman comes into her own. Thirteen Shells is a beautifully written book.","OtherText_Review_10":"Like Munro, Bozak is less interested in dramatic incident than in a careful examination of everyday events; like Linklater, she focuses closely on isolated moments in Shell’s life…Bozak has structured her work carefully, providing repeated images and symbols, as with musical themes, that serve as unifying devices across different stories, deepening the reading experience as the volume progresses.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_11":"The linked-collection form is well-suited to this exploration of identity since the stories can be read in isolation or in any order, but read straight through they function as a coming-of-age novel, a full and satisfying bildungsroman. Like a shell necklace, beauty can be found in both the parts and the whole…Though Thirteen Shells departs from Bozak’s earlier fiction in terms of content, the quality of this new offering is consistent with the first two widely acclaimed novels. Bozak is a talented writer and brings insight and beauty to her account of a southwestern Ontario childhood.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_12":"Nadia Bozak gets to the heart - and the heartbreak - of girlhood with Thirteen Shells.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"CBC Candy Palmater show","OtherText_Review_13":"A coming-of-age tale that resists the usual clichés to focus on the telling details that reveal the essence of a life. ","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_14":"Finally, there exists a penetrating, nuanced account of Canadian girlhood.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_15":"This wise, moving ode to an era turns the pain of growing up with divorce into a hopeful journey.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Foreword","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Teva Harrison, author of In-Between Days","OtherText_Review_2":"Thirteen Shells is a true-to-life account of a totally captivating character, another unforgettable work of fiction from [Nadia Bozak]","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Owen Sound Sun-Times","OtherText_Review_3":"Bozak’s newest book, [is] all repressed heartbreak and wry humour…It is difficult not to be entranced by Shell","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_4":"There is a certain beauty in literature that only can be expressed through the naive, unsure nature of a child growing up amidst the razor edges of dysfunctionality. In Thirteen Shells, Ottawa author Nadia Bozak takes this to a new level by dulling these edges with the unassailable love of a girl for her parents…Shell is no angel. She lies and steals, at least a little. Experiments with drugs. And has her petty jealousies. But by the midpoint in the novel, the readers find themselves rooting for Shell, hoping that her dreams will come true. And that is the novel's brilliance.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Ottawa Review of Books","OtherText_Review_5":"Bozak’s interwoven stories most obviously parallel [Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women]. Both Shell and Munro’s women and girls come of age in extremely realistic fictional Ontario towns. Both can be broken down to stand alone as stories, or read through as a novel. Both focus less on a particular climax, and more on the ongoing understated crises of expectations: the ones we put on ourselves, and the ones other people have of us. Furthermore, both authors are masterful when it comes to language, churning out brilliant turns of phrase worth revisiting….Thirteen Shells quietly captures each painful gasp of growing up: the anxiety and shame, along with the treasures found along the way.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_6":"...Thirteen Shells is enticing, reminding us of the difficulty and joy of simply growing up and getting on with it.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Rory Runnells","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"richly detailed...There's a grittiness and emotional dynamism in these... tales","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_8":"Nadia Bozak's gorgeous collection of linked short stories, Thirteen Shells is drawing tons of praise, including comparisons to Alice Munro, for its deft rendering of a young girl coming of age...Bozak's funny and poignant prose connects us with Shell's deeply relatable longings.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_9":"As a vivid picture of growing up in the ‘80’s, Thirteen Shells is a landmark.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"The London Yodeller","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2016-05-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s."}
Thirteen Shells
Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.
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Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein
In 1966 Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter teamed up to create Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein — now a unique piece of Canadian cultural history.
