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{"id":7325026353211,"title":"A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno","handle":"a-doctor-pedalled-her-bicycle-over-the-river-arno","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno\u003c\/em\u003e carries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of Matt Rader’s first two collections, \u003cem\u003eLiving Things\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMiraculous Hours\u003c\/em\u003e. But it also ascends to a new and luminous, demanding, particularized realm of the human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWildflowers and weeds, newspaper archives and illness, hostels and hostiles, parenting and the shadowy history of grandparents, war and Renaissance paintings: Matt Rader’s unassuming, deeply spirited, and expansive poems show us again how contemporary lyric can go such a long way toward revealing our true homes to us at the moment we find ourselves most nakedly un-housed. Rader seeks out limits, borders, and frontiers -- those mapped for us by authority, and the concomitant, interior shadowlines we ourselves draw -- in order to test their validity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Borges had imagined an atlas of our layered identities, it might look like these poems. This is an astounding collection from a thrilling voice in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:08:30-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:08:30-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"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":43252621803579,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842559","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":104,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887842559","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":[],"featured_image":null,"options":["Title"],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno\u003c\/em\u003e carries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of Matt Rader’s first two collections, \u003cem\u003eLiving Things\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMiraculous Hours\u003c\/em\u003e. But it also ascends to a new and luminous, demanding, particularized realm of the human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWildflowers and weeds, newspaper archives and illness, hostels and hostiles, parenting and the shadowy history of grandparents, war and Renaissance paintings: Matt Rader’s unassuming, deeply spirited, and expansive poems show us again how contemporary lyric can go such a long way toward revealing our true homes to us at the moment we find ourselves most nakedly un-housed. Rader seeks out limits, borders, and frontiers -- those mapped for us by authority, and the concomitant, interior shadowlines we ourselves draw -- in order to test their validity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Borges had imagined an atlas of our layered identities, it might look like these poems. This is an astounding collection from a thrilling voice in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":6816116506683,"title":"A Fairy Tale","handle":"a-fairy-tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom one of Denmark’s rising stars, a powerful and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1986. Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme has been assassinated, and a young boy and his father are on the move again. Travelling from Sweden to the outskirts of Denmark and into the heart of Copenhagen, the two live an unconventional life, constantly on the move and living on the margins of society. The father, an eccentric, restless man, takes a series of odd jobs, from making antique furniture, to landscaping, to working as a bouncer at a strip club. By day he home-schools his young son. 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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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{"id":6899052609595,"title":"A Family Affair","handle":"a-family-affair","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships, \u003ci\u003eA Family Affair\u003c\/i\u003e confirms award-winning author Nadine Bismuth’s place as a remarkable chronicler of contemporary middle-class mores in the manner of Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, and Lorrie Moore. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAward-winning novelist and screenwriter for film and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etelevision Nadine Bismuth has returned with an unsparing portrait of twenty-first century life. In \u003ci\u003eA Family Affair\u003c\/i\u003e, love is the first casualty and deceit — towards others, towards oneself — the norm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKitchen designer Magalie is being cheated upon and so cheats in turn, in the office and with a divorced police officer who has hired her. 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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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadio-Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Radio-Canada","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“A keen and lucid exploration of the mirages of love and motherhood.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Devoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eActuaLitté\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"ActuaLitté","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Bismuth writes page-turners, frankly and accessibly. Once started, you cannot stop. In A Family Affair, we are witnesses to ordinary lives turned upside-down … the reader becomes a voyeur, and can’t help but enjoy it … Bismuth writes with a sharp and addictive pen, and we devour her recounting of the everyday as if it were a crime thriller.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe fil rouge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Le fil rouge","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“What with [Bismuth’s] last short-story collection, Are You Married to a Psychopath?, dating back to 2009, there is no doubt: Nadine Bismuth’s new work has been highly anticipated. In her novel A Family Affair, she revamps her favorite subjects: infidelity and, also, the complexities and ambiguities of love. What a pleasure it is to be reacquainted with her assiduous eye, her sense of humour, her gentle irony.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLes libraires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Les libraires","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Sometimes from a man’s point of view, sometimes from a woman’s, Bismuth presents the questions and challenges forty-somethings face. The writing is fluid, the story captivating, and the turns in the plot admirably constructed.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePage par page\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Page par page","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships and a chronicle of contemporary middle-class mores.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2020-08-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships and a chronicle of contemporary middle-class mores.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
A Family Affair
A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships and a chronicle of contemporary middle-class mores.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
A Feast for Joseph
Joseph misses sharing meals with lots of people like he did back in the refugee camp, so when the neighbors finally come over, it’s a feast!
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
A Few Bites
A sequel to A Few Blocks. Cybèle uses art to tell the story of an older sister creating imaginary worlds to persuade her brother to eat his lunch.
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A Few Blocks
A brilliant young visual artist uses collage and 3-D art to tell how a sister cajoles her brother into walking all the way to school.
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A Florence Diary is the charming and vivacious account of Diana Athill’s travels to post-war Florence.
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A Forest in the City
How can we live in harmony with city trees?
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A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend
In this companion to best-selling titles A Family Is a Family Is a Family and A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid, a child explores how to make a friend.
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ages 10
and up
/ grades 5
and up
A Gift from Childhood
A vivid and stunningly illustrated memoir about growing up in a small village in Mali, written by a renowned African artist who now lives in Portland.
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CEOs lose their obscene wealth in lurid hellrealms; an aspiring writer reassembles a personal history out of fragments from the 2000s; police cadets receive a curious crash course in transduction and ethics; the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Deepwater Horizon oil spill reveal the immanent sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRanging from ironic and furious to pleading and melancholic, Gordon’s speakers exist in a world of social media think pieces, hot takes and take downs, fake news and distorted facts, steeped in pop culture and its discontents. They are real people, intimate as kin. But they’re also pseudonyms, ghosts, and playbacks, echoing from insubstantial handles drifting on the web. They lie and lurk and love online, channelling the morphemes of digital language and filtering the concerns of self, performance, digital identity, and complicity through the irreverence, non-rationality, and surprising beauty of Zen.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487012502","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487012502\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"144","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eIts poetics fanned by tutelary spirits, \u003cem\u003eA Horse at the Window\u003c\/em\u003e spans the burning issues of a world torn between the tangible and the digital. Okay, so it might set your head on fire. But that’s just as well.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"S. D. 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With maximum velocity, existential wit, and dazzling imagery, Spencer Gordon spins a zoetrope of the Anthropocene that uncannily helps make sense of being alive today, yesterday, and tomorrow while claiming there is no point.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Zsuzsi Gartner, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted Better Living through Plastic Explosives","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA work of contemporary experimental literary fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnline identities, avatars, memes, social media threads, Twitter wars, crisis culture, etc. are the raw materials in this work. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGordon's first book, \u003cem\u003eCosmo\u003c\/em\u003e, which Quill and Quire called “Canada’s Most Underrated Book,” was sold in Urban Outfitters across North America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is a writer who will appeal to people who think they’re reading something popular as well as those who see his work as ‘literature.’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2024-06-18","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
A Horse at the Window
A genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness.
