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The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi
A chronicle of the fate of Danilo, and his forbidden love affair with Princess Saida, the Sultan’s beloved daughter set in sixteenth-century Istanbul.
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And wow, what a book: nothing normal here — twelve stunning new stories by the great Greg Hollingshead that will knock you upside the heart and break your head — flush with dizzyingly brilliant insights into the contemporary dilemma, every line is cast in existential magic. Here's a fully-dilated peek into the secret lives of men and women on the brink.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLee Henderson, author of The Man Game\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Lee Henderson, author of The Man Game","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“brilliant...fiendishly good” — \u003cstrong\u003eEmily Donaldson, \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Emily Donaldson","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Hollingshead’s stories are admirable in their refusal to offer their reader a conventional experience . . .” — \u003cstrong\u003eSteven W. 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Act Normal
In his first collection in twenty years, Greg Hollingshead returns with comic new stories about sex, art, and the daily risk of having accidents.
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Fever
Set in the rugged South African wasteland, Fever is an epic story of survival and betrayal for fans of Station Eleven and The Road.
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A thriller set in gritty 1960s Glasgow featuring Detective Inspector Duncan McCormack on the hunt for a violent serial killer known as The Quaker.
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Mind Over Money
Explore the power of money and learn how psychology is providing us with some extraordinary tools for making better decisions about money.
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Are Men Obsolete?
The 12th semi-annual Munk Debate takes on one of the biggest socio-economic phenomena of our time — the decline of the power and status of men.
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Ivan Illich in Conversation
In a series of conversations with David Cayley, Ivan Illich alights on such topics as education, history, language, politics, and the church.
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{"id":6818955984955,"title":"Little Theatres","handle":"little-theatres","description":"\u003cp\u003eErin Moure is one of the most consistently innovative, radically imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure seeks to re-create writing from the ground up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e appears at a pressing historical crossroads, when we most need our language to be made restive again. Like the agua\/water running through the collection -- at once lingual exchange, submersion, balm, and sustenance -- Moure's voices are as fluid, clear, animated, and shimmering with light and life as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGalician and English intermingle in this collection like currents of the same river. How can we open the infinitely small spaces of \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e in our own lives? Can they take the place of war? And who, exactly, writes them? Erin Moure? The unjustly ignored thinker Elisa Sampedrin? Or a speaker inside us finally willing to give \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e its due attention? An intimate act of cultural and personal interflow, this work from a major poet has the power to alter our perception of where, and on what scale, the action is taking place.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T14:15:32-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T13:35:10-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2005-04-01"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249436962875,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847288","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Little Theatres - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887847288","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4d203-f0d8-4944-a72b-250bf7a98069.jpg?v=1682245583"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4d203-f0d8-4944-a72b-250bf7a98069.jpg?v=1682245583","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23431558725691,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":539,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4d203-f0d8-4944-a72b-250bf7a98069.jpg?v=1682245583"},"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":539,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4d203-f0d8-4944-a72b-250bf7a98069.jpg?v=1682245583","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eErin Moure is one of the most consistently innovative, radically imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure seeks to re-create writing from the ground up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e appears at a pressing historical crossroads, when we most need our language to be made restive again. Like the agua\/water running through the collection -- at once lingual exchange, submersion, balm, and sustenance -- Moure's voices are as fluid, clear, animated, and shimmering with light and life as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGalician and English intermingle in this collection like currents of the same river. How can we open the infinitely small spaces of \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e in our own lives? Can they take the place of war? And who, exactly, writes them? Erin Moure? The unjustly ignored thinker Elisa Sampedrin? Or a speaker inside us finally willing to give \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e its due attention? An intimate act of cultural and personal interflow, this work from a major poet has the power to alter our perception of where, and on what scale, the action is taking place.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Little Theatres
Moure's poetic voices are as fluid, clear, animated, and shimmering with light and life as ever.
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The House That Jack Built
First book in the crime series featuring Lars Winkler: loner, dad, former squatter, and drug addict — and the most dedicated detective in Copenhagen.
