Author: Sarah Meehan Sirk
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 9780385687607
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Perfect for readers of George Saunders, Jennifer Egan and Heather O'Neill, a rich and inventive collection of exquisite short stories by a major newcomer to Canadian literature. In this deeply felt, compulsive and edgy work, Sarah Meehan Sirk shines a distinctive light on love and death in their many incarnations, pushing against the limits of the absurd while exposing piercing emotional truths about what it means to be gloriously, maddeningly alive. In "The Dead Husband Project," an artist who has planned to make an installation out of her terminally ill husband's dead body has to recalibrate when his diagnosis changes. In "The Date," an online dating match takes an unusual turn when the man who shows up to the restaurant has no face. In "Ozk," a young girl longs to connect with her socially isolated mother, a professor of mathematics who makes a radical discovery. Uncanny, sometimes violent, achingly sad and always profound, these stories showcase a writer with skill and empathy, and draw us in with a steady, unyielding grip.
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Perfect for readers of George Saunders, Jennifer Egan and Heather O'Neill, a rich and inventive collection of exquisite short stories by a major newcomer to Canadian literature. In this deeply felt, compulsive and edgy work, Sarah Meehan Sirk shines a distinctive light on love and death in their many incarnations,
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
HE WON'T TRADE IN THE TENT FOR A WHITE PICKET FENCE… Small-town life has never held any charm for documentary filmmaker Sam Hove. But after a mishap in the Amazon during filming, Willing, Montana, seems like the perfect place for a quiet recovery. Until he finds out that the town
Language: en
Pages: 376
Pages: 376
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Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
He won't trade in the tent for a white picket fence...
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Finding Mr Right Kit, Susannah, Alison Single, successful and not searching for husbands—but love finds them anyway! Everywhere she looked, there were babies…and Alison longed for one of her own. She wasn't yearning for wedding bells, though: Alison was happily single—she simply wanted to be a mother! Then along came
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Catherine Lim’s free-wheeling imagination cheerfully dispenses with all constraints to tell stories of that other world. Written with an exaggerated sense of earnestness and caution, the eighteen tales in this collection elicit in the reader the very goosebumps of terror she had herself experienced as a child listening to such
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
A nonstop suspense thriller that will rivent your interest and challenge your detective skills until the final frightening and unexpected ending explored upon your senses.
Language: en
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Language: en
Pages: 386
Pages: 386
Commemorating the Dead analyzes and interprets the material remains of Roman period burials in light of ancient texts. Is the move from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of changing fashions? What Greco-Roman and Jewish funerary images were "baptized" as Christian ones? In