six@sixty - Softcover

Alden Nowlan; Douglas Glover; Lynn Coady; Shauna Singh Baldwin; Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer; Mark Anthony Jarman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 086492853X ISBN 13: 9780864928535

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, 2014

Synopsis

And now we are 60. To mark this momentous occasion, the editors at Goose Lane have selected six tiny perfect stories for your reading pleasure. Authored by some of Canada's finest writers, they come from the sweep of Goose Lane's publishing history. Each story will be individually bound and gathered with the others in a nifty sleeve as a collection, or they may be purchased individually in eBook singles. Here's what you can expect to find in this sexagenarian sextet:

ALDEN NOWLAN's "A Boy's Life of Napoleon," a brilliant piece of short fiction adapted from Nowlan's first novel, The Wanton Troopers, written in 1960, but published posthumously in 1988.

The beguiling "Woman Gored by Bison Lives" from DOUGLAS GLOVER's 1991 GG-nominated story collection, A Guide to Animal Behaviour.

Giller Prize-winner LYNN COADY's unforgettable Christmas story "The Three Marys," adapted from her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven, published in 1993.

Commonwealth Prize winner SHAUNA SINGH BALDWIN's glittering story "Simran" from her 1996 debut collection, English Lessons and Other Stories.

KATHRYN KUITENBROUWER's haunting "What Had Become of Us," from her 2003 debut book of short fiction, Way Up.

The extraordinary "Knife Party" from a new collection of stories by MARK ANTHONY JARMAN, forthcoming in the spring of 2015.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

For Goose Lane's diamond anniversary -- an array of six scintillating stories, gems mined from sixty years of Canada's finest publishing and polished to the brightest hues. This multi-volume collection includes the following:

Famed poet Alden Nowlan's "A Boy's Life of Napoleon," adapted from his first novel, "The Wanton Troopers," posthumously published by Goose Lane in 1988

Douglas Glover's strange and affecting "Woman Gored by Bison Lives"

"The Three Marys," a Christmas story with a bite, adapted by Lynn Coady from her debut novel, "Strange Heaven"

"Simran," a twisting tour-de-force by Shauna Singh Baldwin

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's stunning "What Had Become of Us"

"Knife Party," a wild tale of an Italian vacation gone off the rails, from Mark Anthony Jarman's highly anticipated new collection, forthcoming in 2015

About the Author:

Alden Nowlan was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1933. Though he was largely self-taught, he was a prolific writer who published poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. He received a Governor General's Award in 1967 for Bread, Wine and Salt (1967), and in the same year won a Guggenheim Fellowship. He became the writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick in 1969, a position he held until his death in 1983.

About this edition

• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 086492853X
• ISBN 13: 9780864928535
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272