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{"id":6582729801787,"title":"Double Dutch","handle":"double-dutch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanuta Gleed Literary Award finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCity of Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntensely imaginative and darkly emotional, the weird and wonderful stories in \u003cem\u003eDouble Dutch\u003c\/em\u003e deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into strange worlds that are at once both familiar and uncanny — where animals are more human, and people more mysterious, than they first appear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShape-shifters, doppelgangers, and spirits inhabit the extraordinary worlds depicted in Trunkey’s stories: a single mother believes her toddler is the reincarnation of a terrorist; Ronald Reagan’s body double falls in love with the first lady; a man grieves for his wife after a bear takes over her body. The collection also includes moving tales grounded in painful and touching reality: a young deaf girl visits Niagara Falls before she goes blind; an elephant named Topsy is killed on Coney Island by Thomas Edison in 1903; and a woman learns the truth about her son’s disappearance while searching with her husband in the Canadian Rockies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis enchanting and, at times, heartbreaking debut collection of stories hails the arrival of an exceptional new literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:08:08-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:08:08-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Trunkey Laura","pub date: 2016-03-26"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"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":39403418320955,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898783","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Double Dutch - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898783","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413184528443,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898776","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Double Dutch - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":318,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898776","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413184954427,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898790","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Double Dutch - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898790","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8ce7fd65-f43e-4405-9506-89e00c796ec8.jpg?v=1723949947"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8ce7fd65-f43e-4405-9506-89e00c796ec8.jpg?v=1723949947","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743102873659,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8ce7fd65-f43e-4405-9506-89e00c796ec8.jpg?v=1723949947"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8ce7fd65-f43e-4405-9506-89e00c796ec8.jpg?v=1723949947","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanuta Gleed Literary Award finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCity of Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntensely imaginative and darkly emotional, the weird and wonderful stories in \u003cem\u003eDouble Dutch\u003c\/em\u003e deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into strange worlds that are at once both familiar and uncanny — where animals are more human, and people more mysterious, than they first appear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShape-shifters, doppelgangers, and spirits inhabit the extraordinary worlds depicted in Trunkey’s stories: a single mother believes her toddler is the reincarnation of a terrorist; Ronald Reagan’s body double falls in love with the first lady; a man grieves for his wife after a bear takes over her body. The collection also includes moving tales grounded in painful and touching reality: a young deaf girl visits Niagara Falls before she goes blind; an elephant named Topsy is killed on Coney Island by Thomas Edison in 1903; and a woman learns the truth about her son’s disappearance while searching with her husband in the Canadian Rockies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis enchanting and, at times, heartbreaking debut collection of stories hails the arrival of an exceptional new literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Double Dutch
Stories in Double Dutch deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into worlds that are at once both familiar and uncanny.
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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\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\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"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887847769","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9780887849619","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9780887849619","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487006150","BASICMainSubject":"FIC029000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION\/Short Stories (single author)","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. \n\nVisit Peter Behrens' website:\nhttp:\/\/www.peterbehrens.org\n\nVisit Peter Behrens' blog:\nhttp:\/\/www.autoliterate.blogspot.com\/\n\nFollow Peter Behrens on Twitter:\nhttp:\/\/www.twitter.com\/phbehrens","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Short Stories (single author)","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Short Stories (single author)","BISACSubject_0":"FIC029000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC029000","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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Travelling Light
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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{"id":6814266327099,"title":"The Old World and Other Stories","handle":"the-old-world-and-other-stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStirred by a series of found photographs, critically acclaimed author Cary Fagan brilliantly imagines the lost stories behind them in this dazzling story collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany years ago the photographs in this book became separated from their original owners, faces unrecognized, settings a mystery. They floated through this world, as if on a sorrowful wind… I have given them stories to replace the ones they have lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins the bewitching new collection from acclaimed author Cary Fagan, and a journey into a world that is both achingly familiar and wonderfully strange. A man hangs onto a runaway horse. A woman paints in the nude. A child sparks a revolution. 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The Old World and Other Stories
Stirred by a series of found photographs, critically acclaimed author Cary Fagan brilliantly imagines the lost stories behind them.
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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.
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Up Up Up
Up Up Up is Julie Booker’s radiant debut, a taut collection of 20 short, powerful stories brought to life with a unique voice.
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All the Rage
A. L. Kennedy shows herself to be a master of the short form over a dozen stories: a dozen ways of looking at love, or the lack of love.
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The Path of Most Resistance
An entertaining and insightful collection of stories by award-winning author Russell Wangersky about passive aggression in our everyday lives.
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There is nothing idealized about Kennedy's characters or the situations they find themselves in; instead, every story serves as a magnifying glass, revealing darker impulses and truths that we, as readers, often prefer to keep concealed.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_4":"Kennedy is that rarest kind of writer who combines wry emotional intelligence with technical impeccability.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Jessica Schagerl","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Matrix Magazine","OtherText_Review_5":". . . [a] harrowing collection . . . [A. L. 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What Becomes
Twelve remarkable stories show us what becomes of the broken hearted.
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Armstrong is an electrifying new voice on the short fiction scene.” — \u003cstrong\u003eStacey Madden, \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Stacey Madden","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Armstrong’s themes of agency and inevitability are distilled to their essence and given another ironic twist, and her typically spare language is honed to a fine edge.” — \u003cstrong\u003eSteven W. Beattie, \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Steven W. Beattie","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“A worthwhile, well-honed collection that's probing and nuanced... 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Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
"Théodora Armstrong's stories are brash and brainy." - Mark Anthony Jarman
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The verisimilitude of his writing would be unbelievable were it not here on the page waiting to be read - and read it you should, for 19 Knives is short fiction at its finest.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeorgia Straight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Each of 19 Knives' 14 stories (all first-person narratives) integrates sparkling linguistic kinetics and honey-like narrative stickiness. Rejecting postmodern cynicism, Jarman celebrates life's ecstatic mysteries. Religious in their own way - finding meaning in music and everyday life, not empty theology - these stories shake like Muddy Waters riding a riff into the dark recesses of the night...Jarman gives us the best stuff. Solid gold.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“It is very irritating to discover a wonderful book published too long ago to be an official 'book of the year.'...Jarman's collection is...brilliant. The writing is extraordinary, the stories are gripping, it is something new.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA.S. Byatt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"A.S. Byatt","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Jarman's ingenuity is undeniable; his lingual dexterity is prodigious, at times downright acrobatic...The stories are engaging and some are indeed enchanting, pulling the reader into the commonplace and hypnotic.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“The best of many highlights in Jarman's new collection, 19 Knives, ['Burn Man on a Texas Porch'] is not only the best I've story I've read in a year, it's probably one of the best ever written by a Canadian. It's focused, intense, colloquial and darkly funny - carefully crafted while remaining bracingly idiosyncratic...Jarman can do things with a narrative hook and a single strong character that make perennial prize-winners like Bonnie Burnard and Alistair MacLeod seem like candle-dipping dowdies.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEye Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Eye Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“The frenzied pace of Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives betrays the influence of the beat writers. But the dark figures who populate his devastating stories are more suggestive of David Foster Wallace...Like a quart of hand-picked berries, the stories offer sweet stabs of delight with enough grit and pesticide to set your teeth on edge.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eElm Street\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Elm Street","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“The stories grab on and then pedal on imbalance; they tilt and stay dizzyingly tilted, careering, not necessarily toward any kind of resolution, but toward the marrow of a character's psyche...Voice is the foundation and strength of 19 Knives, and provides the primal energy of the stories...19 Knives is a sinuous, heartbreaking book that probes the fragility of human identity in a fresh, elemental way.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeName_0":"ReLit Awards - Fiction","PrizeYear_0":"2001","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2000-03-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
19 Knives
Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.
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Lisa Moore splices moments together so vividly, you'll swear you've lived them yourself.
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It’s a testament to the careful brilliance of Carlucci’s prose that this disaster exists hand-in-hand with redemption; these are tales of unlikely triumph, wistfully poignant and played out with a master hand.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Amanda Leduc, author of The Miracles of Ordinary Men","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Whether Paul Carlucci’s characters are dealing with class conflict, prejudice, or incomprehensible cruelty, the precision and dark, vivid humour of his stories deliver new angles on literary and societal conventions, demonstrating that the sidelines are often where the real emotional action is.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Naben Ruthnum, Journey Prize-winning author and National Post columnist","OtherText_Review_0":"The manipulation of tone within and across stories in A Plea for Constant Motion is enhanced by an overall structure that is carefully and deliberately constructed . . . [there is] much to appreciate in this tough and challenging collection.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"It doesn’t make for easy reading, but A Plea for Constant Motion has an air of urgency to it, a sense of relevance which is at once odd for a collection of short stories and disturbing in and of itself. Carlucci . . . writes beautifully of ugliness, immersing the reader in the minds and hearts of characters most of us would like to avoid, or, more critically, would prefer to believe didn’t exist. It’s a perfect collection for a world which confronts us with increasing violence and ugliness every day.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"Completely absorbing (in a guided-tour-through-hell kind of way), the stories sketch poor choices and malfunctioning moral compasses with a festering or atrophied backdrop of corruption, brutality, abuse and death. . . a rewarding collection.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_3":"A powerful collection of stories that draw you into their reality.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Ottawa Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-01-21","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
A Plea for Constant Motion
Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.
