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{"id":6818796503099,"title":"19 Knives","handle":"19-knives","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about people, he puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short-story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e. With one of the stories shortlisted for the U.S.'s prestigious O. Henry Prize and several others having won prizes or been published in magazines and journals across North America, this collection brings a major fiction writer to the fore.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T10:30:50-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T09:11:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Adult Starred Reviews","Astoria","By (author) Jarman Mark","pub date: 2000-03-01"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"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":40247947362363,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848025","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"19 Knives - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":209,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848025","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40247951949883,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890862","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"19 Knives - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890862","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40247954210875,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895492","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"19 Knives - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895492","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324591095867,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2514,"width":1627,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2514,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857","width":1627}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWith characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about people, he puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short-story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e. With one of the stories shortlisted for the U.S.'s prestigious O. Henry Prize and several others having won prizes or been published in magazines and journals across North America, this collection brings a major fiction writer to the fore.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_1":"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.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"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.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"A.S. Byatt","OtherText_Review_3":"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.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_4":"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.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Eye Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"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.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Elm Street","OtherText_Review_6":"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.","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":"trade paperback","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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{"id":6816229589051,"title":"1996","handle":"1996","description":"\u003cp\u003eSara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. \u003cem\u003e1996\u003c\/em\u003e marks the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:46-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T14:36:36-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Peters Sara","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2013-04-13"],"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":40213756837947,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892712","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"1996 - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770892712","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8850cfc6-b0bf-42cc-b8c9-2d861a153df3.jpg?v=1678596817"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8850cfc6-b0bf-42cc-b8c9-2d861a153df3.jpg?v=1678596817","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324498886715,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8850cfc6-b0bf-42cc-b8c9-2d861a153df3.jpg?v=1678596817"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8850cfc6-b0bf-42cc-b8c9-2d861a153df3.jpg?v=1678596817","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eSara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. \u003cem\u003e1996\u003c\/em\u003e marks the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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1996
Sara Peters' debut collection is about obsessions — about desire, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed.
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Lepage’s masterful command of storytelling, through his physical performance as well as his theatrical trickery, creates a world that’s enveloping, pulling you from one moment to the next, even as it bounces through time.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_7":"[A] work that delights, mesmerizes and provokes.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Variety","OtherText_Review_8":"The passions are internal, the ideas buried like depth charges to detonate later… Lepage sifts through his own past and his country's and, like theatre artists through the ages, transforms what he finds into stage magic.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"NOW Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From acclaimed playwright and author Robert Lepage comes 887 — an autobiographical exploration of memory, culture, and community in Quebec.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"02","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award for Translation","PrizeName_1":"New York Times Critic's Pick","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From acclaimed playwright and author Robert Lepage comes 887 — an autobiographical exploration of memory, culture, and community in Quebec.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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From acclaimed playwright and author Robert Lepage comes 887 — an autobiographical exploration of memory, culture, and community in Quebec.
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A Boring Wife Settles the Score
The saucy and ever-appealing Diane, now turning fifty and with the wreckage of her marriage behind her, sets off on a new hilarious journey for romance.
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Backmatter includes an author’s note, map and archival photographs, which trace the historical roots of the story.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis is not only a Holocaust novel, but the all-too-familiar story of a child of war torn from the country and home he knows and loves amid the swirling confusion of political upheaval, violence and personal loss.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections include rules and responsibilities, storytelling, citizenship and heritage, world history, social economic and political structures, forms of government, political activism, exploring citizenship, propaganda.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e“When countries are fighting,” my mother says, “there can be a lot of confusion. You can’t predict from one day to the next what will happen. Imagine a flock of birds sitting together quietly on a haystack, enjoying the fine weather. 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to 12
/ grades 4
to 6
A Boy Is Not a Bird
A young boy finds his world overturned when his family is uprooted and exiled to Siberia during the occupation of the Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany.
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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
A Boy Is Not a Ghost
In this sequel to the award-winning A Boy Is Not a Bird, a boy is exiled to Siberia during World War II. Based on a true story.
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ages 8
to 11
/ grades 3
to 6
A Boy Named Queen
Who will be brave enough to make friends with the boy named Queen?
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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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ages 5
to 8
/ grades K
to 3
A Coyote Columbus Story
A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story from an Indigenous point of view. Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter stereotypes.
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ages 5
to 8
/ grades K
to 3
A Coyote Solstice Tale
Trickster Coyote experiences the pitfalls of excessive consumption in this comically irreverent solstice tale.
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A Fairy Tale
A profound novel about a young boy and his father who live at the margins of society, until one day their adventure takes an unpredictable turn.
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With an assiduous eye that is both clinical and sympathetic, Bismuth’s elegant and highly readable novel captures the alienating nature of contemporary life and sheds light on this, our strange new world full of unrequited yearning in a sea of seeming plenty.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487007027","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487007027\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Arachnide Editions","MetaKeywords":"In Treatment","NumberOfPages":"320","OtherText_Review_0":"The author who accustomed us to the lies and neuroses of young adults now leads us into the world of forty-somethings, in which infidelity must somehow be managed in lives weighed down by work, shared custody, and hours online … Despite a generous helping of Bismuth’s typically dark humour, a disturbing melancholy permeates A Family Affair.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"La Presse","OtherText_Review_1":"A page-turner. I read it in one go … There is something frankly endearing in this portrait of the modern family. A book you will devour because Nadine Bismuth writes with an extraordinary, honest, accessible, evocative pen.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Radio-Canada","OtherText_Review_2":"A keen and lucid exploration of the mirages of love and motherhood.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_Review_3":"Nadine Bismuth, in a very contemporary style and with a distinctly Quebecois sense of humour, presents us her vision of relationships between men, women, children, parents. Under the heated floor of a hi-tech granite kitchen, she hides nothing. No, but she shatters the lid of that old cast iron casserole, confronting us with our contradictions and reminding us that it is never too late to start afresh, other than we are, elsewhere.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"ActuaLitté","OtherText_Review_4":"Bismuth writes page-turners, frankly and accessibly. Once started, you cannot stop. 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A Family Affair
A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships and a chronicle of contemporary middle-class mores.
