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ISBN13: 9781550718461
ISBN10: 1550718460
English
Gérard is an alcoholic and former crime reporter, gone back to live in the impoverished Montreal neighbourhood where he grew up. One night, his shoelace comes undone, delaying his return home and saving his life when his apartment building mysteriously blows up. Six of his neighbours are dead, others are...
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ISBN13: 9780920717776
ISBN10: 0920717772
English
In this lyrical novella, reminiscent of Marguerite Duras, Suzanne Jacob describes the poignant sojourn of twins on a Maine beach. Mourning the death of their mother, they confront their present by juxtaposing it with their past together.
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ISBN13: 9781771832489
ISBN10: 1771832487
English
Meet Daniel Garneau, your average gay hockey player from small-town Ontario. After moving to Toronto to attend university, Daniel meets David, a bike mechanic whose Catholic Italian mother talks to her dead husbands. Their chemistry is immediate, but Daniel is still drawn to his ex-boyfriend Marcus, a performance artist whose...
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ISBN13: 9781550710519
ISBN10: 1550710516
English
Marking the passage from childhood and adolescence to the adult world, this work describes the fragile extension of the self to others. It recounts the quandaries of friendship, love, death and madness, introducing David, his family and friends and his love, Laura, all fragile bridges to himself.
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ISBN13: 9781550711790
ISBN10: 1550711792
English
This offbeat story collection effortlessly captures dark underworlds and the eccentric characters that inhabit them. In one story, a jealous tattoo artist takes revenge on the woman he loves. In another, one horrifying realization after another comes to light during a harmless childhood game. Told with a Hitchcock-like flair for...
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ISBN13: 9781550711684
ISBN10: 1550711687
English
Sometimes lyrical, sometimes tough, these stories deal with the foibles and frailties of acutely drawn characters pursuing freedom, love, beauty and adventure amidst the stark realities of life, whether at the end of a dictatorship in Spain, on an exotic Mediterranean island or as a Spanish bride-to-be first encountering Canada....
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ISBN13: 9781550711165
ISBN10: 1550711164
English
A Father's Revenge is a disturbing and finely-wrought crime novel. The author takes us on the painful journey of a father in search of justice and the Quebecois detective investigating the incident. It is the fourth novel by Pan Bouyoucas.
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ISBN13: 9781771832403
ISBN10: 1771832401
English
There are unseen forces in our lives that shape who we are and what we become. How we respond to those forces determines our futures. These stories examine how characters respond to the unexpected. Do we carry our memories of the beautiful moments of life with us into death? And,...
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ISBN13: 9781550713411
ISBN10: 1550713418
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In this, her second book, Catherine Black weaves together the wonder, heartache, and "unlovely beauty"of a youth that is by turns charmed and disquieting. Straddling genres of memoir, prose, and poetry, A Hard Gold Thread delights in the layering of keenly observed moments, in the subtle play of remembering and...
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ISBN13: 9781550710328
ISBN10: 155071032X
English
Spanning the first half of this century, the stories in this novel-like collection follow the fates of two families dislocated by the social upheavals of that time -- particularly by immigration to America. As these men and women pursue their private dreams, their inherited culture resists or collaborates with the...
Georg Mordechai Langer, Franz Kafka, Menachem Wolff, Thor Polson, Elana Wolff
2014
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ISBN13: 9781550718676
ISBN10: 1550718673
English
Kafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor, and these two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), represent later works in the corpus. Poems and Songs of Love is a translation of the collection Piyyutim...
Elizabeth Smart, Brigid Brophy, Hélène Filion
1993
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ISBN13: 9782891350495
ISBN10: 2891350499
French
By Grand Central Station est l'une des oeuvres les plus dénudées, les plus écorchées vives qui aient jamais été écrites. C'est un cri de totale vulnérabilité. Le fait de la voir dans la légende du satyre écorché vif rejoint sa propre imagerie puisqu'un satyre, fusion de deux créatures, est lui.
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ISBN13: 9781550712025
ISBN10: 1550712020
English
In trying to uncover why Francesca Nobili killed herself, this mystery novel searches the politically charged world of 1950s Naples, Italy. In it we find corrupt politicians, opportunistic bureaucrats, and activists tortured by their memories of when Naples lay on the front line of the Cold War. The author's own...
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ISBN13: 9781550712193
ISBN10: 1550712195
English
Each of these impeccably crafted and sensitive stories is built around the outstanding ordinary individuals, the eccentrics of the rural working class of Mary Bush's native upstate New York. These are gritty depictions of the day-to-day lives of the hardworking poor, carrying with them their secret burdens. At the cores...
Don Mulcahy, F.G. Paci, Caterina Edwards, Cyril Dabydeen
2016
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ISBN13: 9781771831208
ISBN10: 1771831200
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Migration stories are an essential component of Canada's historical/literary continuum; we need to know of such writings to rationalize about who Canadians really are, and where they are from. Aren't we all the children of migration? Where we came from, how we got here, who we were, and are, and...
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ISBN13: 9781550713459
ISBN10: 1550713450
English
A Tale of Beauty is the story of five young women who have banded together as the Ugly Sisterhood. Chastity, a devout Catholic, has made a mission of saving her brother from a dissolute lifestyle. Diana is isolated by her own impossible standards. Sue, once hurt by a man, has...
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ISBN13: 9781550711202
ISBN10: 1550711202
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This first English publication of Maria Lampadaridou Pothou's work is a collection of her critically acclaimed writing. It includes a revisionist version of a Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone or The Nostalgia of Tragedy, which was written to protest Greek dictatorship. Praised by Samuel Beckett, Pothou wrote the other two featured plays:...
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ISBN13: 9781550710151
ISBN10: 155071015X
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After the fascinating liquid novel, Benedetta in Guysterland (Guernica, 1993), which won the American Book Award in 1994, Giose Rimanelli now presents us a new novel about academic life. Accademia deals with the day-by-day angst in a major American university. Stories of love relationships among nymphets, wives and student lovers...
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ISBN13: 9781550719819
ISBN10: 1550719815
English
Using many right-wing extremists in North America (which means, in effect, weird Republicans), Garebian takes well-known utterances of egregious political, social, and cultural atrocity and presents them as if they were modern poems deserving of serious academic consideration. The intent is to deflate by inflating them in mock-serious fashion. So,...
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ISBN13: 9782891350174
ISBN10: 2891350170
French
Amérique du Sud, rue Jean-Talon, Saint-Léonard, Padre Pio, JOHNNY Christ, Montréal, téléjournal, Pagliacci, Westmount, Roxboro, ADDOLORATA Tu, Rivière-des-Prairies, LOLITA ET ADDOLORATA, cégep, Toronto, immigrants, machine à coudre, Saint-Urbain, t'as, qu'à son trophée
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ISBN13: 9780920717332
ISBN10: 0920717330
English
Raymond Filip's subject is alienation, and he writes about it with a stylistic gusto that's as characteristic as a thumbprint... [His] unusual prose style percolates enthusiastically, stretching English to new limits as his characters explore their own. -- Books in Canada
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ISBN13: 9780920717202
ISBN10: 0920717209
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First published in 1982, Amazon Angel describes a journey into the realm of colour. Inspired by the spirit of the islands of Hawaii where rainbows are a daily occurrence, the narrator navigates from red to violet and back, time-travelling through the lives of women and men of the past and...
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ISBN13: 9780920717967
ISBN10: 0920717969
English
Pierre-Yves Pépin, born in the 1930s, is a geographer and a writer by trade. In the early 1980s, he travelled in the United States, Central and South America. Pépin drove a small truck and was known as Don Pedro. American Stories takes its roots in that journey.
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ISBN13: 9782891350402
ISBN10: 2891350405
French
Dix-huit ans, retour dans sa famille, sur la Côte-Nord, le temps des vacances. Entre le mutisme et la tentation du mimétisme, une jeune fille, un désir, cherche à se dire.
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ISBN13: 9781550713374
ISBN10: 155071337X
English, Italian
To be Hitchcockian about it, the story deals with the relationship between Umber, a professor of comparative literature, and a Dr. Jamshid Kloster, an experimental physicist whom Umber meets on a Laguna Beach bench as Diane Keaton, a long-time Laguna Beach resident, strolls by. Apparently, Conte wasn't as oblivious...
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ISBN13: 9781550711004
ISBN10: 1550711008
English
An experiment in what the author terms "speculative history," this novel tracks the movements of a man haunted by the spirit of his deceased mother and dogged by the notion that Astoria - the Italian neighborhood in Queens where his mother grew up in the 1920s - is the true...
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ISBN13: 9781550712599
ISBN10: 1550712594
English
With humor and poignancy, Marisa Labozzetta's stories expose the social and sexual turmoil of men and women in the time as she puts it "the old age of youth." In "The Knife Lady," a seemingly happily married suburbanite receives a jolt of sexual panic with the visit of a woman...
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ISBN13: 9781550712162
ISBN10: 1550712160
English
Bellecour is about a man's metaphysical return to a series of enigmatic sexual moments that occurred when he was nine years old in the Paris of 1963. This journey blurs the physical lines between present and past, between Toronto and Paris, and ultimately between sexual awakening and sexual abuse.
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ISBN13: 9780920717882
ISBN10: 0920717888
English
Incorporating America's obsessive fascination with the 'mafia', sex and violence, Benedetta in Guysterland tells the story of America's relationship with Italy and debunks the traditional stereotype of the Italian/American gangster. The story told here is about change and the breaking away from roots that happens to all cultural border crossers.
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ISBN13: 9780920717868
ISBN10: 0920717861
English
The original version of this play, the last part of a trilogy on the theme of immigration, won the Grand Prix du Journal de Montréal in 1989.