Produktdetails
Titel: The Journey Prize Stories 21: The Best of Canada's New Writers
Autor/en: Various
ISBN: 077103427X
EAN: 9780771034275
Sprache: Englisch.
Herausgegeben von Camilla Gibb, Lee Henderson
MCCLELLAND & STEWART
Oktober 2009 - kartoniert - 248 Seiten
Beschreibung
"The collection consistently does what the oeuvre does best: communicate intense emotion with force, give life to characters that struggle with their circumstances, illuminate the universal through the specific and the particular, and turn the commonplace into art." Globe and Mail
"[The anthology] amuses, astonishes, and enlightens; it is a delicious cacophony of voices and engaging stories . . ."Books in Canada
The Journey Prize Stories is Canada's most celebrated annual fiction anthology, presenting the best stories published each year by some of our most exciting up-and-coming writers.
Among the stories this year: Desperate to reinvent himself, a disgraced diplomat on what will be the last assignment of his career goes in search of a woman from his past in Eastern Croatia. As a teacher begins to unravel in the aftermath of a school shooting, a series of surprising encounters with her former students reveals their differing degrees of resiliency. Bench presses and Wonder Woman comics create an unexpected intimacy between a teenager and her Ukrainian-language tutor, a former female champion weightlifter. After his junkie uncle moves into the basement to hide out from his dealer and get clean, a lonely boy's longing for a male role model threatens to lead him astray. When a famous author finds himself embroiled in a sex scandal while on his book tour, he discovers the only person he has left to turn to is his handler, a woman with secrets of her own. Cultural tradition gives way to modern-day Japanese efficiency when a long-married couple attend a meeting of Concerned Parents of Unmarried Offspring, a speed dating event for parents in search of spouses for their adult children.
The stories included in the anthology are contenders for the $10,000 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. The winner will be announced in fall 2010.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Camilla Gibb, Lee Henderson, and Rebecca Rosenblum
ADRIAN MICHAEL KELLY
Lure
(from Prairie Fire)
LYNNE KUTSUKAKE
Away
(from Grain Magazine)
JESUS HARDWELL
Easy Living
(from Exile: The Literary Quarterly)
PAUL HEADRICK
Highlife
(from Event)
DAVE MARGOSHES
The Wisdom of Solomon
(from The Dalhousie Review)
ALEXANDER MACLEOD
Miracle Mile
(from The New Quarterly)
YASUKO THANH
Floating Like the Dead
(from Vancouver Review)
SARAH L. TAGGART
Deaf
(from The Malahat Review)
SARAH KEEVIL
Pyro
(from Event)
SHAWN SYMS
On the Line
(from PRISM international)
FRAN KIMMEL
Picturing God's Ocean
(from Grain Magazine)
DANIEL GRIFFIN
The Last Great Works of Alvin Cale
(from The Dalhousie Review)
About the Authors
About the Contributing Journals
Previous Contributing Authors
Portrait
Camilla Gibb is the award-winning author of three novels, most recently Sweetness in the Belly. She divides her time between Toronto and London, England.
Lee Henderson is the author of The Broken Record Technique and The Man Game. A two-time nominee for the Journey Prize, he lives in Vancouver.
Rebecca Rosenblum is the much-talked-about first-time author of Once. A finalist for the Journey Prize in 2007, she lives in Toronto.
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