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{"id":6817706278971,"title":"The Unmemntioable","handle":"the-unmemntioable","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Unmemntioable \u003c\/em\u003ejoins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure's poems, love is bound to a duty: to comprehend what it was that the immigrants would not speak of. Now they are dead; their children and grandchildren know but an anecdotal pastiche of Ukrainian history. On Saskatoon Mountain in Alberta where they settled, only the chatter of the leaves remains of their presence. What was not spoken is sealed over, unmemntioable. There is no one left to contact in the Old Country. Can the unmemntioable retain its silence, yet be eased into words? Can experience still be spoken?\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:53-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:27:39-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-02-15"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220063858747,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890046","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Unmemntioable - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":172,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770890046","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9437ea1b-4d72-4673-a9ef-caffa849e5b1.jpg?v=1682245608"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9437ea1b-4d72-4673-a9ef-caffa849e5b1.jpg?v=1682245608","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23431558823995,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.749,"height":577,"width":432,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9437ea1b-4d72-4673-a9ef-caffa849e5b1.jpg?v=1682245608"},"aspect_ratio":0.749,"height":577,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9437ea1b-4d72-4673-a9ef-caffa849e5b1.jpg?v=1682245608","width":432}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Unmemntioable \u003c\/em\u003ejoins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure's poems, love is bound to a duty: to comprehend what it was that the immigrants would not speak of. Now they are dead; their children and grandchildren know but an anecdotal pastiche of Ukrainian history. On Saskatoon Mountain in Alberta where they settled, only the chatter of the leaves remains of their presence. What was not spoken is sealed over, unmemntioable. There is no one left to contact in the Old Country. Can the unmemntioable retain its silence, yet be eased into words? Can experience still be spoken?\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Unmemntioable
A book-length poem that delves into the fraught history of war, loss, and emigration from Western Ukraine.
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{"id":6817705820219,"title":"Testament","handle":"testament","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e is the summation of Dennis Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking the work published in \u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, and featuring many completely new poems, this startling collection reminds us anew of the catastrophic reality we have made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e continues Lee’s radical and inventive use of language, shaping the familiar into the shockingly new. It is a landmark achievement, and a fitting end to one of the most ambitious projects in Canadian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:50-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:26:28-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Lee Dennis","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-03-10"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220056780859,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891111","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Testament - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":181,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770891111","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324492202043,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e is the summation of Dennis Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking the work published in \u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, and featuring many completely new poems, this startling collection reminds us anew of the catastrophic reality we have made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e continues Lee’s radical and inventive use of language, shaping the familiar into the shockingly new. It is a landmark achievement, and a fitting end to one of the most ambitious projects in Canadian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Testament
The latest collection from poetry legend Dennis Lee, and the final book in a trilogy that includes Un (Anansi, 2003) and Yesno (Anansi, 2007).
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{"id":6817705590843,"title":"The O'Briens","handle":"the-obriens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe O'Briens\u003c\/em\u003e follows the family from \u003cem\u003eThe Law of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e two generations later: Joe O’Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two brothers and two sisters by his side. Their father has abandoned the family and died in the South African war; their frail mother has remarried the abusive and lecherous Mick Heaney. Joe and his siblings escape the poverty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe travels the continent, building a business and a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, he is never quite able to leave his past behind. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTold from the perspectives of Joe, Iseult, and their children and spanning the construction of the Canadian railroad as well as both world wars, this is a majestic novel that mirrors the scope and sweep of what Wilfrid Laurier calls \"Canada's Century.\" Tragic, romantic, and as vivid as the novel that preceded it, \u003cem\u003eThe O'Briens\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic of great heart, imagination, and narrative force.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:25:41-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Behrens Peter","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2011-07-02"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"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":40220052947003,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890336","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The O'Briens - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":562,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770890336","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40220240904251,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890299","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The O'Briens - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890299","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40220242804795,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897175","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The O'Briens - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897175","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5ff0f38d-fe5c-44e4-b163-57c67e8e207b.jpg?v=1653803013"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5ff0f38d-fe5c-44e4-b163-57c67e8e207b.jpg?v=1653803013","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22137959415867,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.636,"height":2364,"width":1504,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5ff0f38d-fe5c-44e4-b163-57c67e8e207b.jpg?v=1653803013"},"aspect_ratio":0.636,"height":2364,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5ff0f38d-fe5c-44e4-b163-57c67e8e207b.jpg?v=1653803013","width":1504}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe O'Briens\u003c\/em\u003e follows the family from \u003cem\u003eThe Law of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e two generations later: Joe O’Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two brothers and two sisters by his side. Their father has abandoned the family and died in the South African war; their frail mother has remarried the abusive and lecherous Mick Heaney. Joe and his siblings escape the poverty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe travels the continent, building a business and a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, he is never quite able to leave his past behind. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTold from the perspectives of Joe, Iseult, and their children and spanning the construction of the Canadian railroad as well as both world wars, this is a majestic novel that mirrors the scope and sweep of what Wilfrid Laurier calls \"Canada's Century.\" Tragic, romantic, and as vivid as the novel that preceded it, \u003cem\u003eThe O'Briens\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic of great heart, imagination, and narrative force.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487002800","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770891036","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770893658","BASICMainSubject":"FIC019000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Literary","BiographicalNote":"Peter Behrens is a novelist and short-story writer who won the 2006 Governor General's Award for fiction. He lives in Maine, USA. \r\n\r\nVisit Peter Behrens' website:\r\nhttp:\/\/www.peterbehrens.org\r\n\r\nVisit Peter Behrens' blog:\r\nhttp:\/\/www.autoliterate.blogspot.com\/\r\n\r\nFollow Peter Behrens on Twitter:\r\nhttp:\/\/www.twitter.com\/phbehrens","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Sagas","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Historical \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"FIC019000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC008000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC014000","ContributorBio_0":"Peter Behrens is a novelist and short-story writer who won the 2006 Governor General's Award for fiction. 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Joe and his siblings escape the poverty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe travels the continent, building a business and a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, he is never quite able to leave his past behind. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTold from the perspectives of Joe, Iseult, and their children and spanning the construction of the Canadian railroad as well as both world wars, this is a majestic novel that mirrors the scope and sweep of what Wilfrid Laurier calls \"Canada's Century.\" Tragic, romantic, and as vivid as the novel that preceded it, \u003cem\u003eThe O'Briens\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic of great heart, imagination, and narrative force.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770890336","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770890336\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"528","OtherText_Review_0":"Brimming with complex and nuanced characters, Behrens's second novel lives up to the expectations set by his award-winning debut.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Keith Cadieux","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1":"Behren's characters are painfully real . . . the battle of the O'Brien family is as legendary and epic as any war.","OtherText_Review_10":"... Behrens deliver[s] beautifully ... thrilling and poignant.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Marianne Ackerman","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_11":"...unforgettable...","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Megan O'Grady","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Vogue","OtherText_Review_12":"Moments of grace and romance are rocked by cruel words and violence in this epic, a piece of rough beauty itself.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_13":"Time and time again, Behrens proves himself a first-rate seanchaí, the Irish term for a storyteller, by bringing the O’Brien clan to life on the page.","OtherText_Review_13_Auth":"James McElroy","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_14":"The O'Briens is a major accomplishment.","OtherText_Review_14_Auth":"John Vernon","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_15":"... fine storytelling ...","OtherText_Review_15_Auth":"Ellen Emry Heltzel","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Seattle Times","OtherText_Review_16":"[The O'Briens] immerses readers in a river of narrative that seems less like fiction than lived experience ... striking and heartfelt ...","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Wendy Smith","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Daily Beast","OtherText_Review_17":"\"Behrens is a beautiful writer ... this is a novel whose vision affirms life in the very best ways.\"","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Roberta Silman","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"The Arts Fuse","OtherText_Review_18":"\"Peter Behrens is a master of the art of storytelling.\"","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Julie Christine","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Chalk the Sun","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Mike Landry","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Telegraph-Journal","OtherText_Review_2":". . . a forward-looking novel . . . you want to turn the pages because the people become so real . . . but underlying the story is a nuance of tragedy and old sadness.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Veronica Ross","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kitchener-Waterloo Record","OtherText_Review_3":". . . a distinctly 20th-century -- and decidedly Canadian -- family epic . . . pitch-perfect.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Charles Foran","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_4":". . . tragic and warm . . . lush with Canadian history . . .","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Lindsay Rainingbird","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Coast","OtherText_Review_5":"For sheer reading satisfaction, The O'Briens is a treat waiting for everyone who read and enjoyed The Law of Dreams.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Andrew Armitage","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Owen Sound Sun Times","OtherText_Review_6":"A truly wonderful writer who will no doubt be dominating the literary award nomination lists this fall.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Marianne Ackerman","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_7":"[The O'Briens] is impressive in its scope and ambitious in its goals. Behrens's writing is always tight, and some of his descriptions are flat-out jaw-dropping.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"William Kowalski","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"Behrens' fine writing moves readers from one decade to the next, and we become more attached to each of the characters with each passing year . . . a sweeping Canadian saga that will carry readers along.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Tracy Sherlock","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_9":". . . Behrens does an excellent job of exposing the particulars of life . . . extremely moving . . .","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In this novel full of tragedy, romance and ingenuity, the family from Behrens’ award winning The Law of Dreams comes of age in \"Canada’s Century.\"","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"New York Times Editors' Choice","PrizeYear_0":"2012","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2011-07-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In this novel full of tragedy, romance and ingenuity, the family from Behrens’ award winning The Law of Dreams comes of age in \"Canada’s Century.\"","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The O'Briens
In this novel full of tragedy, romance and ingenuity, the family from Behrens’ award winning The Law of Dreams comes of age in "Canada’s Century."
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{"id":6817705295931,"title":"Life Is About Losing Everything","handle":"life-is-about-losing-everything","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the wildly controversial books \u003cem\u003eLiar \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePaul's Case \u003c\/em\u003ecomes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are at once a cache, a repository, of a seven-year period in the author's life; and, too, a gymnasium, a place where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDeft with matters both low- and highbrow (here are stories about 80s big-hair bands and the lasting, theological value of the Rocky series; here, too are stories contemplating critical theory and fine art), \u003cem\u003eLife Is About Losing Everything\u003c\/em\u003e speaks with manic yet grave authority about risking and losing everything, and then sorting through the remains to discover what is beautiful, what is trash, and what, ultimately, belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:46-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:25:24-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Crosbie Lynn","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2012-05-05"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2495,"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":40220051177531,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890039","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Life Is About Losing Everything - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2495,"weight":426,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770890039","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40220216197179,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891906","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Life Is About Losing Everything - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770891906","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40220217278523,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896826","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Life Is About Losing Everything - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896826","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58e6825f-6b22-4948-8745-1cc72ba69c64.jpg?v=1678598122"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58e6825f-6b22-4948-8745-1cc72ba69c64.jpg?v=1678598122","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324529590331,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.655,"height":2549,"width":1669,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58e6825f-6b22-4948-8745-1cc72ba69c64.jpg?v=1678598122"},"aspect_ratio":0.655,"height":2549,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58e6825f-6b22-4948-8745-1cc72ba69c64.jpg?v=1678598122","width":1669}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the wildly controversial books \u003cem\u003eLiar \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePaul's Case \u003c\/em\u003ecomes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are at once a cache, a repository, of a seven-year period in the author's life; and, too, a gymnasium, a place where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDeft with matters both low- and highbrow (here are stories about 80s big-hair bands and the lasting, theological value of the Rocky series; here, too are stories contemplating critical theory and fine art), \u003cem\u003eLife Is About Losing Everything\u003c\/em\u003e speaks with manic yet grave authority about risking and losing everything, and then sorting through the remains to discover what is beautiful, what is trash, and what, ultimately, belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Life Is About Losing Everything
Lynn Crosbie gives us a fiery, honest, and heartbreaking blend of personal memoir and fiction that sketches seven tumultuous years in her life.
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{"id":6817704837179,"title":"Signs and Wonders","handle":"signs-and-wonders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA New York Times Editors' Choice and an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant new collection, Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize nominee Alix Ohlin skillfully displays the full range of human emotions through the subtly powerful dramas of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"You Are What You Like\" a young couple finds their life derailed by the arrival of a hard-partying old friend. In \"Robbing the Cradle\" Lisette does everything she can to give her husband a baby, committing an act of desperation. In \"The Idea Man\" Beth, a divorcee, falls in love with a man who lies for fun. And in the incredible title story, Kathleen finds herself sitting at the hospital bedside of a man she had planned to divorce, comforted by the woman she went out of her way to hurt. These characters are divorced and beginning to date again, childless and longing for children, married and aching for more. 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Signs and Wonders
From a talented young writer comes sixteen stories about the the connections between us all.
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{"id":6817704804411,"title":"Inside","handle":"inside","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Grace, a highly competent and devoted therapist in Montreal, stumbles across a man in the snowy woods who has failed to hang himself, her instinct to help immediately kicks in. Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded stranger are far from straightforward.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, her troubled teenage patient, Annie, runs away and soon will reinvent herself in New York as an aspiring and ruthless actress, as unencumbered as humanly possible by any personal attachments. 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A powerful drama about entwined lives and a woman with an unsettling ability to broach the innermost dynamics of the people around her.
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Doctor Kiss Says Yes
A new edition of the magical Governor General's Award winner, now reissued as a fundraiser for IBBY Canada's Joanne Fitzgerald Fund.
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Has the European Experiment Failed?
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I See the Promised Land
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{"id":6816229359675,"title":"Travelling Light","handle":"travelling-light","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Peter Behrens, one of our most beloved storytellers and the author of the bestselling and award-winning novels \u003cem\u003eThe Law of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe O’Briens\u003c\/em\u003e, comes a spectacular collection of riveting stories about growing up and growing older, falling in and out of love, and finding ourselves and losing each other. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eMoving from the magisterial streets of Montreal to the cramped spaces of New York City to the wide open plains of the west, these stories bring their settings magically alive, and within them offer us an incredible array of brilliantly imagined, richly drawn characters. If you liked Peter Behrens’ sweeping family sagas, then you will love this collection, full of the same ambition, heartache, and wisdom that have made him an essential voice of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-25T16:28:07-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T14:36:10-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Behrens Peter","pub date: 2013-04-27"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"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":40213756706875,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848278","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Travelling Light - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":308,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848278","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213771059259,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892385","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Travelling Light - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770892385","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213771354171,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897823","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Travelling Light - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897823","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6a6b1377-70ca-4702-88ce-f33c1f9fd962.jpg?v=1678598848"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6a6b1377-70ca-4702-88ce-f33c1f9fd962.jpg?v=1678598848","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324540141627,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6a6b1377-70ca-4702-88ce-f33c1f9fd962.jpg?v=1678598848"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6a6b1377-70ca-4702-88ce-f33c1f9fd962.jpg?v=1678598848","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Peter Behrens, one of our most beloved storytellers and the author of the bestselling and award-winning novels \u003cem\u003eThe Law of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe O’Briens\u003c\/em\u003e, comes a spectacular collection of riveting stories about growing up and growing older, falling in and out of love, and finding ourselves and losing each other. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eMoving from the magisterial streets of Montreal to the cramped spaces of New York City to the wide open plains of the west, these stories bring their settings magically alive, and within them offer us an incredible array of brilliantly imagined, richly drawn characters. If you liked Peter Behrens’ sweeping family sagas, then you will love this collection, full of the same ambition, heartache, and wisdom that have made him an essential voice of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A spectacular collection of stories about growing up and growing older, falling in and out of love, and finding ourselves and losing each other.
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It’s a rapid ride, with a strong current of tension that never lets up.","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Jennifer Lori","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"PRISM international","OtherText_Review_17":"A superbly written novel that crosses literary boundaries, Caught will surely garner [Moore] even wider readership.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Mike Heffernan","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Atlantic Books Today","OtherText_Review_18":"Caught is a pleasure to read. The narrative is cohesive and propulsive, but it’s Moore’s mastery of language and image that sets her apart.","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Heather Cromarty","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_19":"Moore's ability to conceal a drum-tight plot line and an unflagging fidelity to the thematic pillars of Caught—mistakes and luck, trust and doubt, consequences and freedom—in the cloak of rough-and-tumble prose is something to behold.","OtherText_Review_19_Auth":"Laurie D Graham","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"The Malahat Review","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Leah Hager Cohen","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Caught is an outstanding novel, combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Jeet Heer","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"Lisa Moore’s new book is a beautiful piece of writing…","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Duncan McMonagle","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"[T]his novel that is rife with realness, and beauty, and tension; so much it hurts, in the best possible way.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Morgan Murray","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Newfoundland Quarterly","OtherText_Review_5":"Moore’s prose is as vivid as ever...","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Susan G. 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Caught
A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.
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Hellgoing
Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Coady gives us nine new stories, each grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.
