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The Wrong World: Selected Stories and Essays of Bertram Brooker (Canadian Literature Collection)
By Bertram Brooker. 2009
Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth,…
and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist, successfully experimenting in literature, visual arts, film, and theatre. Brooker brought all of his experimental ambitions to his short fiction and prose. The Wrong World presents a rich sampling of his prose work, much of it previously unpublished, which adds new insight into his aesthetic ambitions. Working during an incredible period of transition in Canadian society, Brooker's stories document Canada's evolution from a provincial colony into a modern, urban country. His essays participated in that evolution by advocating a passionate awakening of the arts, the end of prudish sentiment and censorship, and a radical rethinking of the nature of war. They capture the limitations and hypocrisies of the Canadian social contract and argue for a more just and spiritual society. His stories humanize his social vision by dramatizing the psychological and emotional cost of Canada's transition into a modern civilization. In turn devastating, penetrating and poignant, Brooker's prose works offer a sharply focussed window into the turbulent interwar years in Canada.Hugh Garner's Best Stories: A Critical Edition (Canadian Literature Collection)
By Hugh Garner. 2015
Hugh Garner’s Best Stories received the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four…
stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the Great Depression to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, and second-wave feminism. Garner takes on issues ranging from anglophone–francophone conflict in Canada to racism in the American South, from the disenfranchisement of First Nations people to the mistreatment of the mentally disabled. Best Stories is not only notable for the devastating precision of its prose, but also for its contribution to the Spanish Civil War literary canon. This new edition brings short fiction by Garner into conversation with the wider canon of Canadian and transnational leftist and proletarian literature.Short Stories by Thomas Murtha (Canadian Short Story Library)
By Thomas Murtha. 1980
This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and…
raised in Ontario. Murtha was one of the notable experimental writers of the 1920s, but his work has been largely ignored by literary historians. Thomas Murtha was a classmate and colleague of other notable Canadians including former prime minister Paul Martin, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister. Callaghan, Murtha, and Knister greatly influenced each others' work. Complete with a biographical introduction from Murtha's son, William, this collection provides insight into the work and life of one of Canada's most talented writers.From the Canadian Short Story Library, twelve stories from Desmond Pacey, a major figure in Canadian Literature and criticism. The…
twelve stories are typical of Pacey's story-telling technique and what emerges from them is a distinctive, even powerful optimism, charity, tolerance and deep understanding of human nature. The sombre side of life is honestly portrayed and juxtaposed against the importance of love as a unifying force. These stories, presented in a simple straightforward manner, reveal man as he is: fragile, vulnerable, capable of crude, selfish and irrational behaviour, subject to defeat and despair; but also, heroic, enlightened, capable of strength, wisdom, hope and joy.Chante pour moi, Charlotte (Roman Jeunesse Ser.)
By Marthe Pelletier. 2001
Très tôt, Charlotte apprend ce qu’est la maladie. Elle nous mène sur le chemin de l’apprivoisement et de l’acceptation de…
l’inévitable. Une écriture empreinte de tendresse et de réalisme qui ne peut que nous faire grandir.Drôle en verrat: histoires drôles
By Gilles Latulippe. 2007
Self-care
By Nicholas Dawson. 2021
Self-care réunit les voix de 11 écrivain.es qui, à partir de leur situation de personnes minorisées, se penchent sur différents…
aspects du soin de soi. Résolument politique, cet ouvrage collectif de textes de fiction (poésie, récits, nouvelles et textes hybrides) pense laffect, les troubles, les mécanismes de défense, les obsessions, les impulsions, la mélancolie, la douleur chronique, le deuil et lanxiété comme des voies privilégiées pour aborder toutes les manières de prendre soin de soi, qu'elles soient new age , ancestrales, individualistes, solidaires ou (anti)capitalistesProjet P: quinze femmes parlent de pénis
By Karine Glorieux. 2020
Le pénis qui ne bande plus, le micropénis, le pénis qui fend, le pénis dans l'art, le pénis du fils.…
Celui de la première fois, celui de trop, celui qui fait rêver, celui qui viole... Quinze femmes racontent avec amour, humour et douleur, parfois, des histoires de pénis. Elles ont puisé dans leur vécu pour nommer des tabous, défaire des cliché́s et, surtout, parler à leur tour du corps des hommes afin de lui donner un sens plus large, plus proche de ce qu'elles viventIl y a des joies dont on ignore l'existence
By Cato Fortin. 2022
Une jeune femme adoptée par un couple de Québécois qui trouve du réconfort dans un restaurant, une enseignante de Montréal-Nord…
qui reconnecte avec ses racines grâce à ses élèves, deux femmes qui trouvent l'amour aux abords de la 40, une famille choisie qui imagine une maison de retraite en Gaspésie, un-e poète qui partage des portraits de ses ami-es, une religieuse qui joue au ballon-chasseur, une enfant qui apprend à retirer son nom de la bouche des autres, une fille qui trône sur une charrette, des chants religieux qui nous ramènent à la maison, la tête qui nous tourne dans une quinceañera, un périple depuis la plage vers Hochelaga, une série de réflexions sur notre rapport au mondeCes Récits infectés donnent la parole à des autrices et auteurs qui tentent de prendre la mesure de la crise…
de la COVID-19, de ses aspects tragiques ou comiques, de ses désastres comme des utopies qu'elle a fait naître. Ils se demandent comment elle a agi et continue d'agir sur nous, puis la croise avec d'autres périodes noires, collectives ou plus intimes. Parce que toutes les grandes crises ont une chose en commun : elles révèlent le meilleur comme le pire de l'être humainA Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
By Leonard Cohen. 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen.Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before…
the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before &“Hallelujah&” and &“So Long, Marianne&” and &“Famous Blue Raincoat,&” the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen&’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning.Written between 1956 in Montreal, just as Cohen was publishing his first poetry collection, and 1961, when he&’d settled on Greece&’s Hydra island, the pieces in this collection offer startling insight into Cohen&’s imagination and creative process, and explore themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence.The titular novel, A Ballet of Lepers—one he later remarked was &“probably a better novel&” than his celebrated book The Favourite Game—is a haunting examination of these elements, while the fifteen stories, as well as the playscript, probe the inner demons of his characters, many of whom could function as stand-ins for the author himself.Meditative, surprising, playful, and provocative, A Ballet of Lepers is vivid in its detail, unsparing in its gaze, and reveals the great artist and visceral genius like never before.The book of changes
By Tim Wynne-Jones. 1995
Seven stories of magic, ghosts, and unlikely heroes. Characters in the stories have to deal with strange people with noserings…
who listen to really weird music, how to handle bullies, and using the "I Ching" - the Book of Changes. Grades 5-8. 1995.Beauty and Sadness
By Andre Alexis. 2010
Avec pas une cenne: récits de voyage
By Juliana Léveillé-Trudel, Mélissa Verreault, Kévin Lavoie. 2019
Défier la routine, confronter ses peurs, rencontrer l'âme soeur, donner un sens à sa vie, célébrer la fin d'une époque…
ou le début d'une autre, dépenser l'argent qu'on n'a pas, oublier ses ratages et fuir ses déceptions : voilà autant de raisons d'enfiler son sac à dos et de partir à l'autre bout de la planète pour voir si on y est. Mais s'il y a une leçon à retirer des quatorze récits de voyage que renferme Avec pas une cenne, c'est que peu importe ce qu'on cherchait en partant à l'étranger, on risque de ne jamais le trouver, car rares sont les périples où tout se déroule comme prévu - surtout quand on est obligé de dormir dans des lieux louches, faute d'un budget adéquat pour se payer une chambre d'hôtel qui a de l'allure. Et la deuxième leçon pourrait être celle-ci : Tant qu'à trébucher, aussi bien le faire avec panacheÉclipse électrique: nouvelles
By Melissa Bull. 2020
Il suffit d'un accroc pour qu'une plaie s'ouvre, d'un peu de négligence pour qu'elle sinfecte, et bientôt c'est le corps…
tout entier qui dépérit. N'en va-t-il pas de même des injustices et des humiliations du quotidien ? Un homme incapable de reconnaître ses travers qui gronde son fils et gâche un séjour au chalet. Un amant qui emmène ses innombrables conquêtes bruncher au même endroit. Une infirmière qui traite les participants d'un essai clinique comme de simples amas de chair. Ou encore une mère qui conseille à la copine de son fils de manger du pamplemousse pour perdre son gras de bébé. La vie est jalonnée de ces affronts qu'on encaisse sans réagir et qu'on sefforce aussitôt d'oublier. Mais y parvient-on jamais ?The Wrong World: Selected Stories and Essays of Bertram Brooker (Canadian Literature Collection)
By Bertram Brooker, Gregory Betts. 2009
Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth,…
and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist, successfully experimenting in literature, visual arts, film, and theatre. Brooker brought all of his experimental ambitions to his short fiction and prose. The Wrong World presents a rich sampling of his prose work, much of it previously unpublished, which adds new insight into his aesthetic ambitions. Working during an incredible period of transition in Canadian society, Brooker's stories document Canada's evolution from a provincial colony into a modern, urban country. His essays participated in that evolution by advocating a passionate awakening of the arts, the end of prudish sentiment and censorship, and a radical rethinking of the nature of war. They capture the limitations and hypocrisies of the Canadian social contract and argue for a more just and spiritual society. His stories humanize his social vision by dramatizing the psychological and emotional cost of Canada's transition into a modern civilization. In turn devastating, penetrating and poignant, Brooker's prose works offer a sharply focussed window into the turbulent interwar years in Canada.It Is an Honest Ghost
By John Goldbach. 2016
From Kenya to Quebec, these wry and unconventional stories explore the different ways we're haunted ... Teenagers philosophize on the…
nature of ontology while fearing there's a ghost in the old mill they're stuck in; a man encounters an old friend in the unlikeliest of places; nineteenth-century inventor Sigismund Mohr is vividly brought back from obscurity; and two journalists travel to Kenya for a conference, where one of them has a paranoid breakdown. It Is an Honest Ghost is a funny and often eerie collection that explores what lies beyond mortality -- if anything, that is. 'A thrilling collection: hot-headed, existential, crystalline. Goldbach's novella Hic et Ubique illuminates the nightmare of being a man in this world -- the twisted, spiritual conversion of buddy into warrior. This book is cadenced and visionary.'-- Tamara Faith Berger 'Searching and restless, a new Goldbach story is a thing to celebrate. A whole collection of them? A Mardi Gras of mischievous goodness. This fiction slays hearts in the most wondrous of ways.'-- Jeff ParkerAn Aesthetic Underground
By John Metcalf. 2014
"John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."--Alice MunroThe Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial…
prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary legend whose memoir maps the underground he labored tirelessly to establish.And They Danced by the Light of the Moon
By Heather O’neill. 2012
"There are some people who know when they are in love, and there are some people who don't. Jules was…
the type of person who know when he was in love. Manon was the type of person who did not." Heather O'Neill revisits her award-winning novel Lullabies for Little Criminals with a trip back in time to Val des Loups, the town Jules was born in, and where he met Baby's mother, Manon. This story first appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of The Walrus magazine. Lullabies for Little Criminals was the winner of CBC Canada Reads 2007, the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2007, and shortlisted for multiple prizes, including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Governer General's Award.I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth
By Margaret Atwood. 2012
'"Time isn't the same in dreams," says Charis, who likes reading about what's going on in her head when she…
isn't awake, though sometimes, thinks Roz, it's hard to tell the difference. "In dreams, nobody's dead, really. That's what the man who...he says, in dreams the time is always Now."' Long ago, when they were all a lot younger, Zenia stole a man from each of them. Then she died. Now she's come back. Or has she? There's a lot more than one kind of ghost. Margaret Atwood revisits her classic characters from The Robber Bride. This story first appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of The Walrus magazine.