Reading by Lightning: The Reader's Guide Edition - Softcover

Joan Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864926642 ISBN 13: 9780864926647

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, 2011

Synopsis

<p><b>Winner, Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book <br>Winner, Amazon.ca First Novel Award <br>Winner, On the Same Page, Manitoba Reads <br>Finalist, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book <br>Finalist, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction <br>Finalist, McNally Robinson Book of the Year <br>Longlisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award</b></p><p>For Lily Piper, life on the prairie is spare, austere, and tucked in. She is restless &#8212; not the daughter she feels her mother wants. When puberty hits, an abrupt shift in fate has Lily on her way to England to care for her aging grandmother. There, she experiences life in all its ambiguity, until she is called home to face a future she thought she had escaped.</i> Thomas&#39;s prose is intimate, elegant and devastatingly funny; her engrossing story of Lily Piper tells us something about how we make sense of the future when the future is something we can hardly imagine.</p> <p><i>Reading by Lightning</i>, Joan Thomas&#39;s long-awaited first novel, took readers by storm. A year after its publication, it had won numerous awards, found a large readership, and been selected by popular vote for <i>On the Same Page</i>, Manitoba&#39;s one book reading experience. Goose Lane is pleased to reissue <i>Reading by Lightning</i> in this reader's guide edition, complete with an afterword, an interview with the author, extended biographical notes, and more.</p>

About this title

About the Authors

Joan Thomas has been a regular book reviewer for the Globe and Mail for more than a decade. Her essays, stories, and articles have been published in numerous journals and magazines including Prairie Fire, Books in Canada, and the Winnipeg Free Press. She has won a National Magazine Award, co-edited Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium, and has served on the editorial boards of Turnstone Press and Prairie Fire Magazine. She lives in Winnipeg.

Lisa Moore was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, and was educated at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her first novel, Alligator, won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada Region and was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Award and the Giller Prize. Her latest novel, February, was nominated for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

From the Back Cover

For Lily Piper, life on the prairie is spare and austere. Nothing in her world responds to her hunger for life. When puberty hits, an abrupt shift in fate sends Lily to England, a place she thinks she may have invented. There at last, she experiences life in all its ambiguity, until she is called home to face a future she thought she had escaped.

Reading by Lightning, Joan Thomas's long-awaited first novel, took readers by storm. A year after its publication, it had won numerous awards, found a large readership, and been selected by popular vote for On the Same Page, Manitoba's one book reading experience.

From the Inside Flap

For Lily Piper, life on the prairie is spare and austere. Nothing in her world responds to her hunger for life. When puberty hits, an abrupt shift in fate sends Lily to England, a place she thinks she may have invented. There at last, she experiences life in all its ambiguity, until she is called home to face a future she thought she had escaped.

Reading by Lightning, Joan Thomas's long-awaited first novel, took readers by storm. A year after its publication, it had won numerous awards, found a large readership, and been selected by popular vote for On the Same Page, Manitoba's one book reading experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0864926642
• ISBN 13: 9780864926647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408