Birrell Heather Heather Birrell (53 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of short stories Canada's top authors. Pasha Malla won the Ellis award for Filmsong which is featured. Also included are Peter Robinson, Gail Bowen, Andrew Pyper and Michael Redhill. In fine unread condition.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Kleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: populated as they are with lives both ordinary and extraordinary, Heather Birrell's stories pull at the sinews of the strange until the strangeness shapes itself into something familiar. At the same time, they mould the day-to-day into something new and wholly unexpected. Oldrick must come to terms with his ex-girlfriend's new lover and a belligerent barista in the midst of a smelly garbage strike. Young Misha learns about the complexities of grownup love when his mother is bitten by a stingray. Home-schooled Rational gets a tutor and learns that his 'hunker in the bunker' family isn't quite what he thought it was, and bus-bound Marion, in love with a married man, finds solace in conversation with a convict. The stories in I know you are but what am I? are like snow domes -- perfect little self-contained worlds that you can hold in your hand, turn upside down, shake until the meaning settles in a hundred different ways. Here are children and adults, men and women, all struggling to define themselves, all searching for ways to belong. This is a lucid, dextrous collection that marks the ascension of a writer to watch.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Edge and tip wear, light rubbing to wrapper. Curving to bottom corner of text block. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; 8.2 X 5.2 X 0.8 inches; 220 pages.

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Paperback. Condition: New. In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. We think we know these people but discover we don't-they are more alive, more real, and more complex than we first imagined. A high school science teacher is forced to re-examine the role he played in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania after a student makes a shocking request. The uncertainty, anxiety, and anticipation of pregnancy are examined through an online chat group. Parenting is viewed from the perspective of a gay man caring for his friend and her adopted son. A tragic plane crash becomes the basis for a meditation on motherhood and its discontents. Birrell uses precise, inventive language to capture the beautiful mess of being human-and more than lives up to her Journey Prize accolades. Her characters come to greet us, undo us, make us yearn, and make us smile. Heather Birrell is the author of the story collection I know you are but what am I? Her work has been honored with the prestigious Journey Prize for short fiction and the Edna Staebler Award for creative nonfiction.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What happens when an English teacher goes into labor during a high school lockdown?High school English teacher Elise loves teaching Shakespeare. She is also very pregnant. One quiet afternoon, she ends up trapped in a classroom with her Grade 12 students when the school is locked down. Anthony, the cause of the lockdown, is roaming the halls with a knife in search of some solace, consumed by thoughts of his best friend Samantha, who is in peril. Maria, the school's counselor, is second-guessing her decision to turn him in.As the lockdown drags on, Elise can no longer deny that she's going into labor. And she'll have to rely on the students to get her through: Shai-Anna and Faduma end up acting as midwives, and the others do what they can.In the same way the self shatters and sharpens when one is doing the hard work of giving birth, so does the narrative of the novel, with various people in the school picking up the threads of the story.With infinite empathy for all involved, Born explores the myriad pitfalls and utopian possibilities of the school system, motherhood, and caregiving, and the sometimes fraught, sometimes transcendent nature of the student-teacher relationship. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Advance Uncorrected Proof of this collection of short stories by Canada's top authors. Pasha Malla won the Ellis Award for "Filmsong". Featured authors include Peter Robinson, Gail Bowen, Andrew Pyper and Michael Redhill and more. SIGNED by Gail Bowen & Peter Robinson on the title page. In fine unread condition. Signed by Author. …

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.00x5.00x8.25 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.00x5.00x8.25 inches. In Stock.