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It is a thrift store jam packed with once loved, tattered, and gorgeous images. Crosbie is as mad as Rimbaud, as sweet as Keats, and as debauched as Courtney Love. Kurt Cobain would have adored her.","OtherText_Review_10":"Original and imaginative, filled with wonderfully witty wordplay and plenty of pop culture references… fan fiction for smarty pants.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"THIS Magazine","OtherText_Review_11":"The language is darkly poetic, sad yet full of passion","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Erin Lebar","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_12":"The intensity of Crosbie's writing will sweep you up – it's manic, sincere, explicit, and hilarious. If you ever had a teenage crush, this is its fever dream equivalent, and it's not to be missed.","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"Grace O’Connell","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"W Dish","OtherText_Review_13":"Deliciously bizarre, unapologetically brash, Lynn Crosbie's Where Did You Sleep Last Night is shaping up to be one of the great reads of 2015","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_14":"a literary wild ride through the grunge rock scene","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"CBC Homerun","OtherText_Review_15":"Juxtaposed with Crosbie’s exquisite poetic style and a sense of humour both intelligent and delightfully bizarre, misery is transformed into something beautiful, while still retaining the essential sadness it was born of.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Rover Arts","OtherText_Review_16":"just open to any page and find a paragraph that could stand alone as a devastatingly beautiful poem. This woman can write.","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Susan G. Cole","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"NOW Magazine","OtherText_Review_17":"Crosbie makes this impossibility of reincarnation seem emotionally credible, with her book reading in places like a singular mash-up of fan fiction and magic realism.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"John Semley","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Heather O’Neill, author of The Girl Who Was Saturday Night","OtherText_Review_2":"Lynn Crosbie’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a brilliant portrait of romance, rages, passionate reunions, the emptiness of fame and the devastating losses that afflict two doomed rock stars locked in a heart-shaped box. Every sentence is poetry. I predict this book will, like Kurt Cobain, develop its own cult following.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Jowita Bydlowska, author of Drunk Mom","OtherText_Review_3":"The book’s most affecting passages are the ones where Evelyn’s reverence for Celine bumps up against her desire to be a rock star in her own right…the sense of being caught in thrall to a self-destructive genius and trying to match him, note for note and mistake for mistake, is resonant.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Adam Nayman","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_4":"Bold, kaleidoscopic, full of absurd black humour, Lynn Crosbie’s new novel Where Did You Sleep Last Night is quite unlike anything else that’s been published recently...It is pop and avant-garde, full of fireworks and heartbreak.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Elizabeth Renzetti","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"eminently worthy of our attention…restless, funny and artfully crazed","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Brett Josef Grubisic","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Macleans","OtherText_Review_6":"If you were a teenager in the 1990s, Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Lynn Crosbie is a must read","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"London Public Library Blog","OtherText_Review_7":"I found myself alternately charmed and gutted… Lynn Crosbie has produced a grunge elegy","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Patricia Dawn Robertson","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_8":"At its heart, this is a beautiful and dead-earnest book about the awfully true desire to bring our long-lost loved ones—including the distant ones that hang on our walls as posters—back to life…Crosbie is one of the boldest and most consistently daring Canadian writers around.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Angelo Muredda","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Torontoist","OtherText_Review_9":"Author Lynn Crosbie seems to paint the words on the page…This truly is a wonderful book","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"The Bookshelf Blog","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a love story about a teenage girl who embarks on a relationship with Kurt Cobain.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"Trillium Book Award","PrizeYear_0":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2015-05-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a love story about a teenage girl who embarks on a relationship with Kurt Cobain.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a love story about a teenage girl who embarks on a relationship with Kurt Cobain.
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{"id":6815466291259,"title":"The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps","handle":"the-first-little-bastard-to-call-me-gramps","description":"\u003cp\u003eBill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock medal for humour and former CBC Radio personality, delivers a “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their frank and witty delivery, Richardson’s illustrated retirement rhymes for the hoary-headed do not just playfully reveal the inevitable weakening that afflicts the mind and body as the years wear on, they also cast light on the ageless, exuberant spirit that too often remains hidden inside. From retirement homes, cruises, and grandchildren to liver spots, memory problems, and geriatric sex, Richardson’s candid reflections on the trials, tribulations, and humiliations of growing old are funny, sharp, and irreverent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff, \u003cem\u003eThe First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential companion to the graces, and disgraces, of ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:43:35-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:32:20-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Humor","Adult Poetry","By (author) Richardson Bill","House of Anansi Press","Illustrated by Bikadoroff Roxanna","pub date: 2015-10-10"],"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":40209980981307,"title":"hardcover","option1":"hardcover","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000547","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps - hardcover","public_title":"hardcover","options":["hardcover"],"price":1995,"weight":299,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000547","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22517051850811,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":563,"width":361,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399"},"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":563,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399","width":361}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eBill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock medal for humour and former CBC Radio personality, delivers a “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their frank and witty delivery, Richardson’s illustrated retirement rhymes for the hoary-headed do not just playfully reveal the inevitable weakening that afflicts the mind and body as the years wear on, they also cast light on the ageless, exuberant spirit that too often remains hidden inside. From retirement homes, cruises, and grandchildren to liver spots, memory problems, and geriatric sex, Richardson’s candid reflections on the trials, tribulations, and humiliations of growing old are funny, sharp, and irreverent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff, \u003cem\u003eThe First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential companion to the graces, and disgraces, of ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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They are ghosts born of a magnificent well-documented imagination. [Grenier] is a great talent, [he] possesses a major voice, the invention of Quebec literature in 1958 flourishes thanks to [his] work. Only a genius like Réjean Ducharme could take umbrage, but no other novelist of my generation was able to undertake such a novel.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"Jacques Godbout, author of Hail Galarneau!","OtherText_Accolades_1":"The Longest Year by Daniel Grenier is a magnificent novel featuring a character who is born on February 29 and is witness to 260 years of history in the United States and Quebec. Fascinating. Superbly written.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Src":"Michel Tremblay, author of The Heart Laid Bare","OtherText_Accolades_2":"The breadth of The Longest Year is very satisfying, the intimacy even more so. This is an addictive book. And the reason it is addictive is the warm, intelligent, empathic, enveloping voice of Daniel Grenier. Here is an author who excels in lyricism and is unafraid to tell a good, big story. Daniel Grenier is a rare breed: an old soul overflowing with youthful energy.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Src":"Mireille Silcoff, author of Chez L’arabe","OtherText_Accolades_3":"The Longest Year is a tall tale for the 21th century — insanely inventive, insightful, and moving, at times funny and at times horrifying, epic in scope and yet very intimate in its knowledge of the human heart. Its ideas about life and time, as well as its larger than life characters, will stay with the reader for a while.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Src":"Samuel Archibald, author of Arvida","OtherText_Accolades_4":"A leap year of a book: the kind that comes rarely. Grenier’s prose is tough, vibrant, and occasionally bloody, with a wit — and a grace — that recalls George Saunders or Rachel Kushner.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Src":"Sean Michaels, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWORK IN TRANSLATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Longest Year\u003c\/em\u003e was first published with the title \u003cem\u003eL’année la plus longue\u003c\/em\u003e in French in August 2015 by the Montreal-based press, Le Quartanier. Following the widespread success of translations such as \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Life of Trees\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/em\u003e, and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, public interest in translation has never been higher.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNEXT BIG THING IN MAGICAL REALISM:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eDaniel Grenier’s writing has been compared to that of Junot Diaz, George Saunders, Rachel Kushner, and David Mitchell.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Longest Year\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation. The French edition (\u003cem\u003eL’année la plus longue\u003c\/em\u003e), won the Prix littéraire des collégiens and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for French Fiction, the Prix des libraires, and the Prix littéraire\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A solid work . . . magical.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"La Presse","OtherText_Review_1":"Ambitious. An epic with dense, controlled writing. Large in scope yet intimate . . . A tour de force that takes us across centuries, past frontiers . . . and doesn’t hesitate to flirt with fantasy.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_Review_2":"[M]agical . . . spectacular . . . Grenier’s magnum opus . . . The Longest Year is the kind of book you want to tell people about. [Strauss] has masterfully translated L’année la plus longue, Grenier’s genre-volt-face, into The Longest Year — a year so good I wouldn’t mind living it a few times over myself, this novel’s plot begging for another crack.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"Last year, Catherine Leroux’s The Party Wall arrived like a revelation: a French-Canadian novel with a continent-sized imagination, about connections between people over borders and across time. . . . [I]n The Longest Year Grenier engages a similar continental imaginary. The novel’s magic realist conceit — that a person born on Feb. 29 might age one year for every four — allows an epic swath of history with sweeping geography to match.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Historical fiction at its finest ... full of wit, whimsy, and a wellspring of historical detail","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Daniel Grenier’s novel, perfect for fans of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeName_0":"Prix littéraire des collégiens","PrizeName_1":"Prix des libraires","PrizeName_2":"Prix littéraire France-Québec","PrizeYear_0":"2015","PrizeYear_1":"2015","PrizeYear_2":"2015","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2017-03-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Daniel Grenier’s novel, perfect for fans of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Longest Year
Daniel Grenier’s novel, perfect for fans of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
Is there someone out there for everyone? Two lonely souls find each other in this unusual tale of friendship and belonging from Cary Fagan.
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My Friend
A story about the importance of friendship in the life of an immigrant child, from acclaimed creators Elisa Amado and Alfonso Ruano.
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Dog Park
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In 1973, Bud Davidge wrote The Mummer's Song as a tribute to a centuries-old custom in danger of disappearing and fostered a revival of mummering.
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Love shines through in the sticky notes shared between a mother and daughter in this picture book about making time for family in our busy lives.
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Jimmy the Greatest!
This is the powerful story of Jimmy, who lives in a small, remote town by the sea in Latin America, and is inspired by Muhammad Ali.
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ages 4
to 9
/ grades P
to 4
Alfredito Flies Home
An extraordinary book that celebrates the joyful return of Alfredito and his family to the country they left as refugees.
