Lines of Truth and Conversation - Softcover

Alexander, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088984271X ISBN 13: 9780889842717

Publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada, 2005

Synopsis

Alexander writes with a brash, comic, and socially sensitive touch that recalls Carol Shields. This isn't hip, trendy, urban writing. It is unflinching, vivid, and frequently domestic. Nino Ricci described the collection as possessing an unbridled urgency and wit.... At once eccentric and precisely observed, they seem to hum with the energy of everything in life that is unreasonable and can't quite be contained.'

About this title

From the Back Cover

Joan Alexander is one of those writers who can find humour in dark places, can sympathize with her characters even when they are behaving foolishly, perhaps because they are behaving foolishly. She understands pain and loss and longing, but she writes with clarity and directness. She doesn't sentimentalize, and she doesn't shy away. Surely, she is a writer to watch, which is to say, a writer to read, a writer who rewards reading.' - Kim Jernigan - The New Quarterly

From the Inside Flap

"Lines of Truth and Conversation" is among the most daring, most original, and most wholly successful works of fiction I have read in a long while. Each story in this collection is powerful and quirky and moving in its own right. But the ultimate beauty of the book, for me, is to be found in its overall architecture -- how the stories slowly, inexorably fuse into a unified thematic whole. This is a book that will last.' - Tim O'Brien

Edition details

• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088984271X
• ISBN 13: 9780889842717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192