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ISBN13: 9781771830058
ISBN10: 1771830050
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A novel about passions -- a passion for sex, a passion for America, and a passion for movie-making. Sarah Fielding wants to turn the great Canadian novel into a ‘quality' movie, but the sex-mad producer, the deluded Hollywood star, and the ‘authentic' young actor have their own thoughts about how...
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ISBN13: 9781771832663
ISBN10: 1771832665
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The Shining Fragments is a family saga about the Irish in Canada
that explores the ramifications of abandonment, obsession, love, memory, and visionary power. Spanning the years 1882-1904, it follows Joseph Conlon from his early childhood in Ulster to his
experiences of youth and adulthood as an immigrant. Left behind as a...
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ISBN13: 9781550713381
ISBN10: 1550713388
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Len Gasparini is a master of the dark, hard-edged, densely layered story. In his latest story collection, The Snows of Yesteryear, he charts the climate of the human heart with compassion, humor, nostalgia, and irony. His characters are shaped as much by fate as by the hungry ghosts of their...
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ISBN13: 9781550716306
ISBN10: 1550716301
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Louise Aubert leaves Mathieu Lord when he joins the Stalinist party. Fifteen years later, she writes a letter in which she dares express her vision of their common history, marked by authoritarianism, mental cruelty and the absence of sharing in the name of love. In the story that follows this...
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ISBN13: 9780920717561
ISBN10: 092071756X
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The four texts brought together for the first time in this volume as The Tangible Word were originally published separately as Bloody Mary (1977), Une voix pour Odile (1978), Vertiges (1979), and Nécessairement putain (1980). Powerful and sensual, this collection explores daily life, sexuality, and inner reflection in a clear...
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ISBN13: 9781550713596
ISBN10: 1550713590
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Laura Marello writes, through the American photographer Eduard Steichen, and through the voices of the painters Matisse, Rousseau and Picasso, dancer Nijinsky, sculptor Camille Claudel, and others, the story of the artist's life in Paris, 1908-1917. In this novel, each artist tells his or her own story.
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ISBN13: 9781550712773
ISBN10: 1550712772
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In this postmodern novel about shifting views of history, a young journalist covering the visit of a French prime minister to Quebec becomes fascinated by a newspaper photograph of historic Trestler House. Curious about how such a landmark sheds light on the difference between personal and national identity, she decides...
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ISBN13: 9781550712650
ISBN10: 1550712659
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With their staccato rhythm and attention to detail these stories recall emotions, memories, atmosphere, and even physical sensations with a powerful freshness. Gasparini's ability to render passion and humanity ensure a truly memorable and compelling collection.
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ISBN13: 9781550710991
ISBN10: 1550710990
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This collection voices the ongoing fascination with ethnicity in America. In this case, it is Italian-American ethnicity and its attendant themes -- the ineluctable bonds between mothers and daughters, granddaughters and grandparents; the family rituals centered around but not limited to celebration and dining; and the desire to reinvent the...
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ISBN13: 9781771830324
ISBN10: 1771830328
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The Voyageur is a graphic novel, illustrated by Nick Marinkovich (KENK, Marvel's When The Hulk Attacks, Underworld, Nightwolf, Impaler), written and conceived by documentary filmmaker/screenwriter Jeff Sturge (Mayday, Storming Juno, Cold Blood). Compelling characters drive a fast-paced story set in the 17th century that addresses themes of alienation, a young...
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ISBN13: 9781771832212
ISBN10: 1771832215
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Fintan O'Neill's no hero. There's not a lot of money in 17th century Ireland, but the likeable, withdrawn 15-year-old's the poorest kid in Waterford, living on a small tenant farm with a tough cynical mother, forced to do what she's had to for her and her boy to survive. The...
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ISBN13: 9781550710007
ISBN10: 1550710001
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The World at Noon tells the story of Nicolo, who sets out to visit his ailing mother, sees his father (dead these past three years), has lunch with his daughter and falls in love with his daughter's friend, Roxanne. It's also about Nicolo's handsome wife, Maeve, a strong woman with...
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ISBN13: 9781550713145
ISBN10: 1550713140
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Images overrun the world. Toons filled with rage and hate hunger for life. A war between simulations and humans. People besieged in a castle of dreams. A mysterious knight shifts between worlds, holding the secret that could save all. Orphaned children lead him to the whirlwind, the terrible faceless source....
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ISBN13: 9781771830508
ISBN10: 1771830506
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Births mark beginnings, while funerals toll in endings. Yet there resides so much in-between drama in the timeline of an extended family: moments of intense joy, times of heart-wrenching grief, and the day-to-day plodding of ups and downs that color the struggle with loss in all of human existence. In...
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ISBN13: 9780920717691
ISBN10: 0920717691
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This collection comprises three stories each by three Quebecois authors.
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ISBN13: 9781771831567
ISBN10: 1771831561
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At twenty, Sheyda Porrouya's life is almost over. Born in Iran on the day staunchly orthodox mullas declare the birth of the Islamic Republic, she is witness to their purging of the country of all things Western and un-Islamic. To make matters worse, as she matures, Sheyda seems increasingly unable...
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ISBN13: 9780920717424
ISBN10: 092071742X
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ISBN13: 9781550713657
ISBN10: 1550713655
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A classic short fiction writer, Wade Bell lets his characters do the talking for him, electing to stay in the background. His style is simple but he's not afraid to pry open the heart of a character and expose it for all the world to see. Bell's latest collection features...
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ISBN13: 9781550717266
ISBN10: 155071726X
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Drawing on history and family legend, Anthony Di Renzo presents a tale of progress and reaction, irony and paradox, in which the splendors of Caserta must yield to the wonders of the Crystal Palace. Both intimate and sweeping, Trinàcria questions the price of pride and the cost of prosperity and...
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ISBN13: 9781550717297
ISBN10: 1550717294
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Mothers of the 1950s were wasp-waisted, dutiful, serene, and tied to the kitchen with apron strings. Or so we thought. This collection of searing and startling poetry and prose unties the stereotype and reveals women who were strong, wild, talented, wise, mad, creative, desperate, angry, courageous, bitter, tenacious, reckless and...
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ISBN13: 9781550710564
ISBN10: 1550710567
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A homeless woman grieves her son's death. A drug addict breaks through his withdrawal and mourns his losses. An adolescent girl realizes that she must mother her mother. This collection of stories sheds light on the inner lives of the lonely, the alienated, and the dispossessed. Whether the narrators are...
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ISBN13: 9780920717738
ISBN10: 092071773X
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Clement Marchand is a seminal figure in Quebec literature, standing at the crossroads between the country and the city, between this century and the last. The original French version of this suite of stories, Courriers des villages, was awarded the prestigious Prix David in 1942. Marchand depicts the life and...
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ISBN13: 9781771832168
ISBN10: 1771832169
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Somewhere in the Mediterranean lies the mysterious archipelago of Venera, a city-state drenched in erotic romanticism, fuelled by atavistic ritual, and suffused with surreal adventure and intrigue. Outside forces repeatedly attempt to steal its most closely guarded treasure: the secret of the sacred spice vermilion, and its power to alter...
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ISBN13: 9781771830140
ISBN10: 177183014X
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A story of love and lust with philosophical overtones, Via Roma oscillates between joy and tragedy. Drawn to and intrigued by two men of Italian descent, both equally smart, loyal and attractive, Sophie Wolfe, a native-born Montrealer, chooses one over the other, setting into motion a series of events that...
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ISBN13: 9780919349728
ISBN10: 0919349722
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Marco Micone's first play, Voiceless People, portrays the exploitation of first-generation Italian immigrants Addolorata focuses more deeply on the role of authority in the father/daughter, husband/wife power relationships in the second generation. Voiceless People was awarded the Grand Prix du Journal de Montreal for Theatre in 1989.
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ISBN13: 9781771831536
ISBN10: 1771831537
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Fleeing Stalin's advance into Lithuania, shaken by communism and war, four refugees end up in Toronto in 1949. Vytas, a young doctor who gets into medical school by saving a child's life, is haunted by a lost love. Maryte, a seamstress whose affair with a German officer saved her half-witted...
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ISBN13: 9781771830560
ISBN10: 1771830565
The stories in this collection centre around new immigrants -- spirited people prepared to leave their home and hearth to travel to distant lands in pursuit of dreams of a better life. But often times there's a reality check, and they are left to grapple with unexpected challenges: cultural shock,...
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ISBN13: 9781550719420
ISBN10: 1550719424
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This powerful, beautiful book blends parables, aphorisms, dreams, fantasies, anecdotes, witticisms, puns, vignettes, and prose poems in a meditative and often passionate way. It takes the risk of being free in its style and form, to affirm the possibilities of thought, spirit, heart, humour, and imagination. Here B.W. Powe gives...
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ISBN13: 9781550711158
ISBN10: 1550711156
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A novel of loss and retrieval. The main protagonists are Agostina and Giulia, mother and daughter, who have been separated by the trials of assimilation. The father's Alzheimer's disease acts as a catalyst for the mother and daughter's re-acquaintance with themselves.
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ISBN13: 9781771831963
ISBN10: 1771831960
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In 1941, twelve-year-old Rivke Rosenfeld lives in the Warsaw Ghetto, where she witnesses German soldiers slashing her grandfather's beard from his face. Her anger compels her to secretly write her stories and her memories in the margins of a book of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen. When Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum,...