The Journey prize anthology : short fiction from the best of Canada's new writers.
The Journey prize anthology : short fiction from the best of Canada's new writers.
Publication Date
:
1999
Subject Term
:
Canadian fiction.
Short stories, Canadian (English)
Canadian fiction -- 20th century.
Additional Contributors
:
Currie, Sheldon,
Summary
:
Over the course of a long, hot summer with her invalid grandmother and a free-spirited babysitter, a young girl becomes increasingly aware of the complexities and ambiguities that lie on the other side of childhood. In a wistful tale about the enduring strength of family ties, a young Eskimo boy is determined to take on the responsibility of finding a new home for his infant brother. The sudden and unexpected death of his father prompts a man to embark on a meditative journey through his own peripatetic life. The pretensions and hypocrisies of a small town are comically brought to the surface during a Sunday Mass. After a fateful encounter, a defiant teenage girl and a solitary backwoodsman forge an uneasy life together amidst the wilderness of the Yukon. The progress of a married man’s seduction by a student is coolly observed by his wife. In a moving exploration of the power of memory and the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s, a woman tends to her now-elderly foster father.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780771044243
General Note
:
Subtitles varies: The best short fiction from Canada's literary journals.
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Copy | Status |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Fiction NL Reference - Conservation Room | FIC JOU | v. 11 | NonCirculating |