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{"id":6814249615419,"title":"Norma","handle":"norma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePurge \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhen the Doves Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e comes a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood — and the moods of those around her — corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother’s funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSetting out to reconstruct Anita’s final months, Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair’s power than she let on. As Sofi Oksanen leads us deeper into Norma’s world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women’s bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:22-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:23:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","Book Club Pick","By (author) Oksanen Sofi","pub date: 2017-09-02","Translated by Witesman Owen F."],"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":40206677835835,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001742","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Norma - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":380,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487001742","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206679343163,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001766","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Norma - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001766","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206680326203,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001957","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Norma - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001957","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1ae75b19-b18f-4cb7-a40f-d2dd32c07172.jpg?v=1655626975"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1ae75b19-b18f-4cb7-a40f-d2dd32c07172.jpg?v=1655626975","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243440328763,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1ae75b19-b18f-4cb7-a40f-d2dd32c07172.jpg?v=1655626975"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1ae75b19-b18f-4cb7-a40f-d2dd32c07172.jpg?v=1655626975","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePurge \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhen the Doves Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e comes a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood — and the moods of those around her — corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother’s funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSetting out to reconstruct Anita’s final months, Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair’s power than she let on. As Sofi Oksanen leads us deeper into Norma’s world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women’s bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother’s funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSetting out to reconstruct Anita’s final months, Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair’s power than she let on. As Sofi Oksanen leads us deeper into Norma’s world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women’s bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487001742","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001742\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.25","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"320","OtherText_Review_0":"[An] ambitious contemporary fantasy novel . . . Oksanen creates intricate characters and imagery.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"Oksanen, author of the internationally bestselling Purge, has a rather delightful imagination, and it is a wonder to watch her spin her outrageous story with the utter seriousness of your average thriller.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Star Tribune","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"Young Aleksis Literature Prize","PrizeYear_0":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-09-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Norma
A spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.
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{"id":6814243291195,"title":"Fear","handle":"fear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA masterpiece of psychological suspense for fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Need to Talk About Kevin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandolph Tiefenthaler insists he had a normal childhood, though he grew up with a father who kept thirty loaded guns in the house. A modestly successful architect with an attractive, intelligent wife, Rebecca, and two children, Randolph finds his life turned upside down when his father, a man he loves yet has always feared, is imprisoned for murder.\u003ci\u003e… \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFear\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the twisted events leading up to his father’s incarceration. It begins when Randolph and his family move into a new building and meet their neighbour, Dieter Tiberius, the peculiar yet seemingly friendly man living in the basement apartment. As the Tiefenthalers settle into their home, they become increasingly disturbed as Dieter’s strange behaviour turns malevolent — sending erotic letters to Rebecca, spying, making accusations of child abuse, and filing police reports he against the Tiefenthalers. Finally, Randolph confesses his own feelings of desperation and helplessness, which ultimately lead to his father’s intervention. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:16-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:21:47-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","By (author) Kurbjuweit Dirk","pub date: 2017-10-21","Thrillers \u0026 Mystery","Translated by Taylor Imogen"],"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":40206668955707,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002831","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Fear - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":360,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487002831","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206670331963,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002848","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Fear - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002848","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206670659643,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002855","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Fear - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002855","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3d1d8415-7886-4a31-877e-e7ffb8f5af09.jpg?v=1655626973"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3d1d8415-7886-4a31-877e-e7ffb8f5af09.jpg?v=1655626973","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243440263227,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3d1d8415-7886-4a31-877e-e7ffb8f5af09.jpg?v=1655626973"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3d1d8415-7886-4a31-877e-e7ffb8f5af09.jpg?v=1655626973","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA masterpiece of psychological suspense for fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Need to Talk About Kevin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandolph Tiefenthaler insists he had a normal childhood, though he grew up with a father who kept thirty loaded guns in the house. A modestly successful architect with an attractive, intelligent wife, Rebecca, and two children, Randolph finds his life turned upside down when his father, a man he loves yet has always feared, is imprisoned for murder.\u003ci\u003e… \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFear\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the twisted events leading up to his father’s incarceration. It begins when Randolph and his family move into a new building and meet their neighbour, Dieter Tiberius, the peculiar yet seemingly friendly man living in the basement apartment. As the Tiefenthalers settle into their home, they become increasingly disturbed as Dieter’s strange behaviour turns malevolent — sending erotic letters to Rebecca, spying, making accusations of child abuse, and filing police reports he against the Tiefenthalers. Finally, Randolph confesses his own feelings of desperation and helplessness, which ultimately lead to his father’s intervention. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487000516","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487005801","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770891845","BASICMainSubject":"FIC031080","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Thrillers \/ Psychological","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDIRK KURBJUWEIT\u003c\/strong\u003e is deputy editor-in-chief at \u003cem\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/em\u003e, where he has worked since 1999. He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for journalism, and is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels, many of which, including \u003cem\u003eFear\u003c\/em\u003e, have been adapted for film, television, and radio in Germany. \u003cem\u003eFear\u003c\/em\u003e is the first of his works to be translated into English. 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He divides his time between Berlin and Hamburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIMOGEN TAYLOR\u003c\/strong\u003e is a freelance literary translator based in Berlin. 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Finally, Randolph confesses his own feelings of desperation and helplessness, which ultimately lead to his father’s intervention. \u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487002831","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487002831\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"304","OtherText_Accolades_0":"Fear shifts our moral codes. It makes us sympathetic to violent revenge, accessories to murder. Do we want the victim to survive? No, we don’t. Long after I had put this book down I still didn’t. A great achievement.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Kerman Koch, author of The Dinner","OtherText_Review_0":"Extremely creepy . . . [a] terrific novel.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"[Fear] is at once a domestic thriller and a reflection on masculinity, morality and responsibility.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"Kurbjuweit generates suspense . . . we care enough about these flawed people to keep turning the pages.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_3":"Fear is a smart, psychologically complex and morally acute fable of modern German society decked out in the garb of an intricate thriller. . . . 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Fear
A masterpiece of psychological suspense for fans of The Dinner and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Three Times a Day: Simple and Stylish
After the success of Three Times a Day, Marilou and Alexandre Champagne are back with a second volume featuring more than 100 brand new recipes.
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Not only was it out of character, in her mind it was an acknowledgement that she was their equal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I can’t give you an answer this minute,” she said. “I have to think about it, and I also want to talk to my partners and the people expecting me in Shanghai.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Of course, do that,” he said. “But there is urgency to this matter. Waiting four days to talk to you wasn’t easy — more than once I reached for the phone. Can you possibly speak to them tonight?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Yes, I can, and I’ll call you when I have.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I’ll stay up until I hear from you,” he said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Uncle, you do understand this doesn’t mean I’m leaning towards saying yes?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Please, give us that one day, Ava,” Chang said. “My belief is that if you do, you’ll commit to helping us get to the bottom of this problem.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe’s dangling bait, she thought. 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Tightly plotted and quick-moving, this is a spare yet terrifically suspenseful novel.\"","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In the eleventh installment of the bestselling Ava Lee series, Ava uncovers an international terrorism conspiracy rooted in a college in Tawi-Tawi.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-01-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"An Ava Lee Novel","ShortDescription":"In the eleventh installment of the bestselling Ava Lee series, Ava uncovers an international terrorism conspiracy rooted in a college in Tawi-Tawi.","Subtitle":"An Ava Lee Novel: Book 10","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Imam of Tawi-Tawi
In the eleventh installment of the bestselling Ava Lee series, Ava uncovers an international terrorism conspiracy rooted in a college in Tawi-Tawi.
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Eighteen Below
Gritty and chilling, Eighteen Below Zero is the third stand-alone thriller in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series.
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Is American Democracy in Crisis?
The twenty-first semi-annual Munk Debate considers the current crisis of American democracy.
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{"id":6813804396603,"title":"Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit special hardcover edition","handle":"unstable-neighbourhood-rabbit-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. No single term seems to sufficiently contain Mikko Harvey’s delightful, cheeky, absurdist, inimitable debut poetry collection. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Mikko Harvey's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bomb and a raindrop make small talk as they fall through the air; a visit to the phlebotomist evolves into a nightmarish party; a boy notices himself turning into a piano key. Reading \u003cem\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e is like spending the day at a strange amusement park. At first the rides appear familiar—then you realize they possess the power to not only thrill and terrify, but destabilize your very notion of amusement. These poems veer sharply away from what’s normally expected of poetry, instead bringing readers to that darkened, awkward, interior space where we are free to be most ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:46-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:24:37-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Harvey Mikko","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2018-04-03"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"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":40205723566139,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003616","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":3500,"weight":120,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003616","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1adc7d8c-f2b1-489c-ba7a-ea310f0befec.jpg?v=1705996393"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1adc7d8c-f2b1-489c-ba7a-ea310f0befec.jpg?v=1705996393","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24126690885691,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.504,"height":1000,"width":1504,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1adc7d8c-f2b1-489c-ba7a-ea310f0befec.jpg?v=1705996393"},"aspect_ratio":1.504,"height":1000,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1adc7d8c-f2b1-489c-ba7a-ea310f0befec.jpg?v=1705996393","width":1504}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. No single term seems to sufficiently contain Mikko Harvey’s delightful, cheeky, absurdist, inimitable debut poetry collection. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Mikko Harvey's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bomb and a raindrop make small talk as they fall through the air; a visit to the phlebotomist evolves into a nightmarish party; a boy notices himself turning into a piano key. Reading \u003cem\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e is like spending the day at a strange amusement park. At first the rides appear familiar—then you realize they possess the power to not only thrill and terrify, but destabilize your very notion of amusement. These poems veer sharply away from what’s normally expected of poetry, instead bringing readers to that darkened, awkward, interior space where we are free to be most ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Mikko Harvey's poetry collection Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit is limited to 50 copies.
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Emma Healey’s provocative collection of prose poems explores the urgent themes of feminism, mental illness, sexuality and artistic practice.
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It reinforces our position as the premier publisher of poetry in Canada.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBUZZWORTHY ANNOUNCEMENTS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe announcement of the international and Canadian shortlists (in April, Poetry Month), the readings by the shortlisted poets (in early June), and announcement of the two $65,000 prize winners at a gala event (on the evening following the shortlist readings) generate considerable buzz around the Griffin Poetry Prize and interest in all the shortlisted poets’ work. 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It reinforces our position as the premier publisher of poetry in Canada.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"The Griffin Poetry Prize is a rich tribute to an art form largely and stupidly ignored by the public . . . an annual report on the state of the poetry nation.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"The world’s premier international poetry prize.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Maclean’s","OtherText_Review_2":"Already of the first calibre — a great shortlist, great judges, great trustees, great intent.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"The Olympics of poetry.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Life","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry, edited by Ian Williams, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-06-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology","ShortDescription":"The annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry, edited by Ian Williams, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.","Subtitle":"A Selection of the Shortlist","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry, edited by Ian Williams, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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Marvel as the Kids share their intimate memories and behind-the-scenes stories of how they created their greatest sketches and most beloved characters, from the Chicken Lady and Buddy Cole to Cabbage Head and Sir Simon \u0026amp;Hecubus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy\u003c\/i\u003e spans the entirety of the Kids’ storied career, from their early club shows in Toronto and New York to their recent live reunion tours across North America. Along for the ride are a plethora of fans, peers, and luminaries to celebrate the career and legacy of Canada’s most subversively hilarious comedy troupe. You’ll read tributes from Seth Meyers, Judd Apatow, Garry Shandling, Paul Feig, Mike Myers, David Cross, Michael Ian Black, Brent Butt, Jonah Ray, Dana Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Richter, and Canada’s newest comedy sensation, Baroness Von Sketch. 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They’re a continuation and a combination of what we did in Second City, and what Monty Python was doing for us at the time. They were all so gifted, and their storytelling was very cool and sophisticated.","OtherText_Accolades_16_Auth":"David Steinberg","OtherText_Accolades_17":"The Kids in the Hall are easily the most influential comedians of my generation and one of the greatest sketch troupes of all time.","OtherText_Accolades_17_Auth":"Kliph Nesteroff, author of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Fred Armisen","OtherText_Accolades_2":"They were the step after Saturday Night Live. This was something new.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Lorne Michaels","OtherText_Accolades_3":"They were just so fucking good.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Patton Oswalt","OtherText_Accolades_4":"The Kids in the Hall were groundbreaking and hilarious and much bolder than anything anybody else was doing at the time. 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We need to compete with these assholes.’ And of course, in our minds, they were fuckers and assholes because they were successful.","OtherText_Accolades_8_Auth":"Michael Ian Black","OtherText_Accolades_9":"Comedic milestones — when comedy takes a step forward — are the moments that, as a comedy person, you live for. The Kids in the Hall were one of them. Modern sketch comedy owes them the hugest debt of gratitude.","OtherText_Accolades_9_Auth":"Paul Feig","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE KIDS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFeatures exclusive interviews with all five members of The Kids in the Hall: Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH COMEDY ROYALTY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFeatures exclusive interviews and tributes from comedy luminaries, including Lorne Michaels, Seth Meyers, Judd Apatow, Garry Shandling, Paul Feig, Mike Myers, David Cross, Michael Ian Black, Brent Butt, Jonah Ray, Dana Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Richter, and Canada’s newest comedy sensation, Baroness Von Sketch.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMEDIA INVOLVEMENT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe’re publishing simultaneously in North America, and we hope to be able to arrange for Paul and the Kids to do media, this will be confirmed closer to publication.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREUNION ON NETFLIX?:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn September 2017, news outlets reported that Lorne Michaels was in talks with Netflix to get the Kids back on TV in a Netflix original series (similar to what he’d done with Mr. Show). 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A jittery Scott Thompson darted in and out of the room, seeming to have misplaced something important, while Dave Foley offered me a warm handshake with one hand while nursing a soft drink in the other, having recently gone on the wagon. By this point, I had known the troupe for over thirty years, but while these five middle-aged men had long since outgrown their childlike name, very little else seemed to have changed about them since the day we met. While a sense of imminent fun hung over the backstage area, this was not a party; these men were about to go to work at the job they had created for themselves back on the streets of Toronto in the early 80s. As curtain time approached, Millan politely asked all visitors to clear the room and take their seats, affording me my first opportunity to get an unscientific read on the age demographics of the 2300 fans in the sold-out house. Surprisingly, it wasn’t all silver foxes like myself and it seemed to me that roughly half the house was comprised of millennials or younger, a large cross-section of these people hadn’t even been born when \u003cem\u003eThe Kids In The Hall\u003c\/em\u003e TV series was still on network television in the early 1990s, and it was entirely possible that, for many, this was their first time at a Kids In The Hall live show. As the house lights dimmed, a recording of Shadowy Men on A Shadowy Planet’s “Having An Average Weekend,” the official theme for the Kids’ TV series, echoed through the auditorium to cheers of instant recognition. The air was as electric as I was nostalgic.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eTaking in the moment I realized that the Kids and I had come a long way, some 30 years and 2,634 miles (4239 km) to be precise, to get here. My mind raced back to Toronto in the winter of 1985, at the very show where I had first realized that maybe, just maybe, these guys had something special. As in all the best stories, it opens on a dark and stormy night, when an especially nasty blizzard was heaping obscene amounts of snow upon the city. TTC streetcars were backed up all along Queen Street and most major surface routes, and you couldn’t get a cab to save your life. Frankly, if you had nothing better to do, you were best advised to stay home under a blanket, preferably near a space heater.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eYet some of us brave comedy aficionados \u003cem\u003edid\u003c\/em\u003e have something better to do, we who had bravely trudged through six-foot snowdrifts, past cars that wouldn’t be dug out until morning, just to get to a tiny cabaret bar called The Rivoli, where a photocopied poster on a telephone pole out front beckoned, “Man The Laff Boats, it’s The Kids In The Hall.” \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eOnce safely inside the warm confines of the Riv, we bought our drinks from the bartender and talent booker, Carson, and took our seats just as Dave, Kevin, Bruce, Mark, and Scott commandeered two cramped but functional stages and went about the hilarious business of fulfilling their weekly residency. Besides the dreadful weather, the news that day had been dominated by a horrific Air India plane crash, and a kind of black cloud seemed to hang in the air above the city. Earlier that afternoon, the five Kids had huddled backstage to mull over whether they should even play the show at all, operating on the assumption that nobody would make it through the storm, or feel much like laughing if they did. Instead, they opted do the show anyway, for themselves, audience or not.\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n \u003cp\u003e “The show went on,” says McDonald, “and for some reason, this became the first night that we had a lineup around the block and even had to turn people away. After that night, we always had a great audience at the Rivoli.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eThe troupe had been honing their act for months, and I had been laughing along with their uniquely suburban takes on social justice, big city life, and institutional hypocrisy. Week after week, I had witnessed them creating fresh new material out of the ether, creating new characters and forging a unique comedy aesthetic, right before our eyes. While clearly informed by \u003cem\u003eMonty Python’s Flying Circus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSCTV\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/em\u003e, their highly disruptive comedy that was as anarchic as any punk rock show playing in the neighbouring bars of the Queen Street strip. Sure they were all white males, but in the early 80s just having one of those white males be openly gay, and not always playing it for laughs, seemed revolutionary. While they played all the female roles themselves, it never seemed like a campy drag act, and their “ladies” were frequently the heroes of their scenes. While the name was already age inappropriate – even then, they were all in their early to mid-twenties -- it also announced them as perennial outsiders, the punks in the corridor, ready to break into the big room by any means necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eI had discovered them early on, and organically. After my younger brother, the sketch comedian and writer Mike Myers, had flourished at the Second City Theatre’s comedy workshops, I found myself following him to class and soon I too was learning the ways and history of improv comedy alongside my fellow students, Kevin and Dave. They said they had been doing shows and that I should come to see them. As fate would have it, my girlfriend at the time mentioned a comedy troupe she’d heard about that featured a fellow student from York University named Scott. Of course, all roads were leading us to The Rivoli, and as Toronto thawed out and warmed up, so too did the buzz around The Kids In The Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eEventually that buzz translated into a career in television and I became a regular member of the studio audience for their live tapings. Soon, our secret was out, and their name spread across the country and beyond. Just as \u003cem\u003eSCTV\u003c\/em\u003e had put Canadian comedy on the map, \u003cem\u003eThe Kids In The Hall\u003c\/em\u003e updated it and made it even cooler.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eAs they moved into film and theatre tours, various tensions within the troupe would at times threaten their fragile union, but like any thirty-year marriage, they have somehow made it work for three decades and as the curtain opened at Warfield in 2015, the marriage analogy is underlined by the sight of all five Kids in bridal gowns, symbolically re-affirming their vows via classic sketches, while offering new material, just as they had back in those chilly Rivoli days.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eAfter the show, Kevin made it clear to me that while these five strong willed individuals would probably always find something to fight over, but that this same tension was probably also the secret to their longevity. As with their fictional garage rock band in their beloved sketch, Rod Torfulson’s Armada featuring Herman Menderchuck, there were times in the Kids’ career when they questioned if they were going to make it, but judging by the heroes welcome they received in San Francisco, it was clear they had finally arrived (having eaten).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eIt wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t always fun. As a troupe, they’ve often made risky artistic choices, and probably shot themselves in the foot more than once, all in the name of reaching a consensus, according to McDonald, the state of their union was as strong as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003e “I always say that, individually, we’re five smart guys, but together we add up to one dumb guy,” McDonald would later tell me during one of our many conversations for this book. “We create most of our own problems, then we're sad about it, but later on, we can see the humour in them. I think it helps us write better sketches.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eThese pages constitute the inside story of how that One Dumb Guy would go on to write some of the funniest sketch comedy ever performed and inspire their peers and subsequent generations of sketch comedians to create programs such as\u003cem\u003e Mr. Show with Bob \u0026 David\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe State\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Ben Stiller Show\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePortlandia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKey \u0026 Peele\u003c\/em\u003e, and most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Baroness Von Sketch Show\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eToday, the Kids In The Hall can still make me laugh whenever I see them or their work, and despite cheating death and worse, they’re still here.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eThe story of just how they \u003cem\u003egot\u003c\/em\u003e here begins in earnest in the province of Alberta, when a young drunk punk named Bruce McCulloch met a well-traveled diplomat’s son named Mark McKinney. \u003c\/p\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":"Kliph Nesteroff, author of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"Paul Myers usually writes biographies about rock stars, and he used that approach to create The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, the story of possibly the greatest comedy troupe of all time, and Canada’s greatest world citizens.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vulture","OtherText_Review_2":"A terrific account of a truly unique sensation.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-10-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.","Subtitle":"One Dumb Guy","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Kids in the Hall
The definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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The Sisters Brothers (Movie Tie-In Edition)
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{"id":6813781524539,"title":"The Long Take","handle":"the-long-take","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stunning modern epic that innovatively combines noir narrative and lyrical poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can’t return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity, and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but — as those dark, classic movies made clear — the country needed outsiders to study and dramatize its new anxieties. 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The evocative truth and the crystalline ring of his words, line by line, make a kind of hope in themselves.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"W.S. Merwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner The Shadow of Sirius","OtherText_Accolades_1":"An inter-genre tour de force, The Long Take is a restless reimagining of conventional poetics. Through the poem’s protagonist, Robertson has cast a national, cultural, psychological, and class outsider of vibrant and seedy post-war America into a palpable anti-hero eerily resonant with our contemporary world. With syncopated rhythms, staccato dialogue, and jump-scenes, the book weaves dizzying, jazz-like meditations on PTSD, masculinity, betrayal, and salvation by embodying, in sound, scent, and sixth-sense, one of America’s most hopeful and devastating decades. The result is a ravishing achievement.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Ocean Vuong, author of the T.S. 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The Long Take is a masterly work of art, exciting, colourful, fast-paced — the old-time movie reviewer’s vocabulary is apt to the case — and almost unbearably moving.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_2":"As a work of art, this dreamlike exploration is a triumph; as a timely allegory, it is disturbingly profound . . . Robertson’s The Long Take is one of the first major achievements of twenty-first-century English-language literature.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e offers a wholly unique literary voice and form. A verse novel with photographs, it manages to evoke with exceptional vividness aspects of post-World War Two history that are rarely parsed together. Swinging effortlessly between combat with its traumatic aftermath, and the brute redevelopment of American cities, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e shows us the ravages of capitalism as a continuation of war-time violence by other means. It is also a bold, eloquent homage to cinema as perhaps the only medium in which the true history of America has been preserved. This is a genre-defying novel. Cutting from battlefield to building demolitions in San Francisco and LA, to the killing of black men on the streets of America today, it imports into the very form of the writing one of the most famous film techniques: cross-cutting. You could be in the cinema, or listening to an elegy, or reading the story of one man’s devastating experience as he tries to rebuild the shards of his life after the war. A pageant of loss, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e is also a lyrical tribute to the power of writing and image to convey, and somehow survive, historic and ongoing suffering and injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Man Booker Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the inner journey of Canadian veteran Walker as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco attempting to rebuild his life after living through the horrors of war in Europe. In poetry of the utmost beauty, Robin Robertson interweaves themes from the great age of black and white films, the destruction of communities as cities destroy the old to build the new, the horrors of McCarthyism and the terrible psychological wounds left by war. Robertson shows us things we’d rather not see and asks us to face things we’d rather not face. 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With its undeniable beauty; quiet, modest but strong pull, this book will shift something in your soul. By the time you have finished reading it, you won't quite be the same.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Goldsmiths Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e remarkably captures linguistic styles of 1940s American writing — Saroyan and Steinbeck. As it progresses into the mid-50s we’re hearing Ginsberg and Baldwin … you will be washed in all these when you read this poem … Robertson has chosen a supremely uncomfortable, recognizable flashpoint in U.S. history, an almost perfect mirror image of the nation today: crude, newly unleashed material ambitions mix with off-the-chart levels of fear and paranoia. 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The Long Take
The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.
