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In one version, the tattoo was a grateful reminder of his education in a Canadian church mission school and the scar the remains of a childhood surgery. At another time, for another audience, he might say he picked up the tattoo while drunk on shore leave, the scar in a knife fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarold Sonny Ladoo emigrated from Trinidad to Canada in 1968, an early arrival in a wave of immigration made possible by a new point system that made Canada more open than ever before to immigration from non-European countries. Like most such immigrants, he came to Toronto. He came in his early twenties, already married, with children. And he came determined. You might doubt his stories, but no one who met Harold — never Harry — ever doubted he would tell them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo years and a lot of dishwashing later, he met the new writer-in-residence of the new Erindale College at the new Islington subway station. As Peter Such tells it, he noticed a young man in a cheap coat several sizes too large for him, a man “staring straight ahead, looking at somewhere else completely.” Whatever he saw out there, he wrote it down on the back of a TTC transfer. On a hunch, Such asked the young man if he was a writer; he said, yes, I am. Such invited him to see Erindale, and with the help of an equally impressed registrar, Harold Ladoo found himself enrolled as a mature student at the new Mississauga campus of the University of Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe calendar said 1970 but it was still the sixties, and the talk in his corner of the student cafeteria was of Marx and Fanon, Lenin and Mao, Che Guevara and Angela Davis. Ladoo joined the battle as if he had been waiting for it his whole life (because he had), arguing about anything and everything, vigorously, intensely, to win. The other students called him Plato, partly out of respect, partly to mock him. He liked it. He was of them but apart from them, disdainful even, caring more for the words he was forever writing than the words and worries of others. A writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt first, of course, his words were borrowed. He wrote carefully measured poems, finger exercises from the Empire’s song book. Peter Such told him about a Toronto publisher named after an African god; he sent the poems to them. Their editor rejected them and told Ladoo to write about what he knew. Ladoo wrote a spiteful letter back, but he also burned everything he had written to that point, two suitcases full of manuscripts. And a week later he showed up in Such’s office with a half-dozen stories about the village near which he had grown up. By the end of his first year at Erindale, he had the draft of a novel. He submitted it to the editor who had rejected his poems; they met at the Red Lion pub on Jarvis, the manuscript on the table between them. Again the editor said no, not yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat summer, Ladoo learned on the day of his father’s death — August 12, 1971 — that the people of Canada wanted to give him money to write a book. He used $300 of his $500 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to return to Trinidad, where he found his mother drunk, his brother a confirmed lunatic, and his sisters and neighbours fighting over the property. When he came back to Toronto in September, he had no money, his wife was unemployed, his son was sick, and they were about to be evicted. A relative let the family move into the basement of her bungalow on Victoria Park Avenue. Ladoo borrowed enough money to go back to school for his second year, making the long commute from the edge of Scarborough to the middle of Mississauga. 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On the back, a photograph by Graeme Gibson shows Ladoo smoking, staring straight ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarold Ladoo was part and product of a literary explosion unlike anything Canada has ever experienced, before or since. The long decade between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s saw the emergence of the best-known names in Canadian literature, writers to whom time (never mind subsequent events) has so far been kinder than it has to Ladoo. These are the names most people still think of when they think of Canadian writing, names like Margaret Atwood, Marie-Claire Blais, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Gallant, Margaret Laurence, Dennis Lee, Alistair MacLeod, Alice Munro, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, Mordecai Richler, and Michel Tremblay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt wasn’t just literary. Canada awoke in the 1960s, shaken by the excitement leading up to the party in Montreal. But the explosion was loudest and echoed longest in print. 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Arrival
Acclaimed critic Nick Mount delves into Canada’s literary history and the era that produced some of our most internationally acclaimed authors.
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The Stranger Upstairs
A pacey psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth that asks just how well we know those we love.
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He planned to top off his sabbatical year with a long hitchhiking trip through South America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, towards midsummer, his uncle Raoul, who had become a partial invalid, gave Jerome his hunting equipment. As an adolescent, Jerome had gone on dozens of hunting trips with his uncle, so he was fairly familiar with guns — which, to his father, were an abomination. Jerome’s memories of those trips were filled with marvels that passing time had embellished. So, one afternoon, handling the rifles and carbines his uncle had sent him and seeing how assiduously oiled and polished they were, he was so moved that tears came to his eyes. A hunger for the hunt took hold of him and held on unrelentingly; come the night, he dreamed of going on safaris in shadowy forests in which he came face to face with herds of deer, moose, or caribou, which he would slaughter in a terrifying burst of gunfire, half blinded by the clouds of acrid smoke that made him cough and laugh at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe dedicated a weekend to courses — “Arms Management” and “An Introduction to Hunting” — in order to get his permit, which he received a month later. Yet, even with it, he felt he needed to have someone experienced with him on his first adult foray into the woods. And so, in early October, he’d surfed the Internet to look for a hunting guide, came up with Donat Pimparé, and the business was settled in no time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was Pimparé who suggested they get themselves to Maniwaki.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I know it’s a bit far,” Pimparé had said, “and sure, there’ll be some expenses, but in the past five or six years I’ve found no better place for big game. I’ve never led a hunting party up there that hasn’t come back with an animal. If you don’t wanna come home empty-handed, pal, then Maniwaki’s the place to go.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty-eight-year-old Pimparé lived in Sorel and had accumulated a lot of experience as a guide. And since Jerome, two months earlier, had totalled his beloved Mazda in an accident from which he, fortunately, had escaped unharmed — other than three demerit points off his driver’s licence — Pimparé offered to drive them both up to Maniwaki in his minivan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If we get a moose that’s too big for the van,” he joked, “you can come back by bus.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich was what he would have to do, apparently. 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The Accidental Education of Jerome Lupien
Montreal student Jerome is swept up in a series of misadventures and criminal escapades in this portrait of a city infamously mired in corruption.
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I’m here with a conference of twenty thousand librarians from all over North America, two weeks after the Pulse massacre. It’s very early; I’m jogging around two big, olive-coloured ponds and not a breath of wind, an empty eight-lane highway between the ponds and I’m on the median.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lizard skitters over the curb and across the highway. It goes in fast-forward but there are glitches. Stops. Goes, stops. Darts. A jellied quivering. The long thin body is still, but the legs. You can’t even see the legs in the bald light. Just a blur of motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are squiggles of fluorescent spray-paint here and there on the sidewalk in pink, orange, and lime. They’re construction directives, targets for jackhammers, indicating the location of water or sewage pipes beneath the concrete, positions for embedded spigots, underground tunnels for workers and who knows what else — bog people, muskets, cannonballs, arrowheads. I took two planes to get here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrlando was retrieved from the swamp by a wily entrepreneur who set up dummy companies to purchase the land cheap. A hundred thousand people work in the theme parks here, vomiting in their oversized cartoon-costume heads because you aren’t allowed to vomit in a theme park. It’s hot in those cartoon heads. You aren’t even allowed to die of heat prostration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople who die on the parks’ premises are secreted away, whisked from the grounds in unmarked cars and why not? Why not have a zone that death can’t in infiltrate? It costs fabulously to squeeze into these crowds, to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course you offer life without death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou offer furry animals that speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I’m coming around the second pond the sprayers come on and shuffle out sheets of recollected water, the sign says. Water that I don’t want to touch my bare skin because who knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s not true that the wily entrepreneur is cryogenically preserved. That’s an urban legend. People say just his head in a murky aquarium: mouth open, the lower lip looking grey and nibbled, deteriorating despite the formaldehyde, like he’s developed a cold sore, and a five o’clock shadow, because hair still grows in death. Sometimes the head burps and a wobbling bubble escapes a corner of the mouth. A fold-encrusted eyelid utters. But that is just the underwater air infiltration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis place is where the GoFundMe stage-four cancer children come to fulfill a bucket list. The parks around here specialize in reconstituting hearts — break ’em, put ’em back together. The white beluga in the aquarium will do it for you, all by itself. Defibrillate your soul. 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Without question, Moore is a writer of great social conscience and compassion.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“In Moore’s most diverse and powerful collection yet, each story has a role to play in highlighting the most fascinating hidden aspects of our everyday lives.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Life","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Moore takes her characters to some undeniably dark places in these stories, though the book is never entirely devoid of humour or hope. And there is abiding joy in the prose, which is lithe and tensile in equal measure. There is astonishment here, and grit, and beauty that is close to breathtaking.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Lisa Moore brings a particular wizardry to whatever she touches, but her command of the short story is such that when she bends its rules, we look at old ideas in new ways . . . The stories in Something for Everyone are like prizes in pass-the-parcel. They tie up neatly, but they’re loose enough so that when you move the package, the corner edge tears, and the wrapping opens up like a hole in a pair of nylons, and you realize there are a lot more layers underneath that need to be peeled back and teased apart.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOvercast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Overcast","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“The stories in Lisa Moore’s collection, Something for Everyone, pulsate with raw energy and a fierce, searching intelligence. In a series of unconventional tales that explode off the page, Moore ushers her reader into a familiar but fractured and anything-but-straightforward reality. Lisa Moore writes of quotidian lives in crisis. Her characters’ anxieties mirror our own: family, love, employment, finances. But from these commonplace lives she conjures spellbinding mini-dramas, drawing us in from each story’s opening line, generating great suspense and fully engaging our sympathies. Throughout, the writing is vibrant, uninhibited and packed with sensual detail. Moore acknowledges the beauty of nature and the human capacity for kindness; she is no stranger to the essential comedy of the human condition. But never does she shy away from the dark undercurrents of her characters’ lives. Something for Everyone is an important book by a major talent working at the height of her considerable powers, an author who isn’t afraid to stretch the boundaries of her art and who pursues her singular aesthetic vision in an uncompromising and wildly entertaining manner.” — \u003cstrong\u003eThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Jury Citation\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Jury Citation","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeName_0":"Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award","PrizeName_1":"Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction","PrizeName_2":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_3":"A Globe and Mail Book of the Year","PrizeName_4":"A Quill \u0026 Quire Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","PrizeYear_2":"2018","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2018-09-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Something for Everyone
Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.
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An intelligent and insightful collection of essays on women and feminism from bestselling author and Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti.
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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Katherena Vermette's poetry collection river woman is limited to 50 copies.
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Power Politics
A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing, Margaret Atwood.
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Fire Sermon
An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.
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Blue Rider
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Bitter Orange
A suspenseful novel set in 1969 England about one woman’s obsession with a glamorous, hedonistic couple living downstairs who aren’t what they seem.
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Your Turn, Adrian
A graphic novel about feeling vulnerable and struggling to meet expectations, and about friendship and the power of the imagination.
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