The Journey Prize Anthology: Short Fiction From The Best of Canada's Young Writers (Signed by Madeleine Thien)

Rubinsky, Holley (Selected by) (Signed by Madeleine Thien)

ISBN 10: 0771044372 / ISBN 13: 9780771044373

Published by McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, ON, 1998

About this Item

This copy is signed adjacent to the contents page by Madeleine Thien, next to her short story title - "Simple Recipes" . Simple Recipes, Madeleine Thien's first published collection of short stories, was published in 2001. In fine condition; unread.

Seller Inventory # 003707

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Journey Prize Anthology: Short Fiction From The Best of Canada's Young Writers (Signed by Madeleine Thien)
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, ON
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771044372
• ISBN 13: 9780771044373
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

In this tenth-anniversary edition, the tradition of publishing the best of Canada’s emerging writers continues.

The volatile last days of a crippling relationship are played out against the sensuous, surreal landscape of the Amazon. In a haunting story of survival, a daughter observes her mother’s struggles to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. French expatriates find refuge in each other when they become clandestine lovers in Quebec, amidst the growing political hostilities that will eventually tear them apart. As a black community prepares to relocate from Africville, Nova Scotia, the town’s oldest member is overwhelmed by her memories of life there. In a desperate effort to startle him into awareness of his family’s growing unhappiness, a son plots an end to his father’s string of good luck. When a woman tries to satisfy her lover’s obsession with personal tragedy, the fiction she creates begins to eclipse the truth of her own past. A mother and daughter encounter the glitz of Las Vegas and the fallout of nuclear tests in the 1950s’ Nevada desert when, together, they run away from home.

The winner of the $10,000 Journey Prize for 1998 was John Brooke, for “The Finer Points of Apples.”

From the Inside Flap

h-anniversary edition, the tradition of publishing the best of Canada s emerging writers continues.

The volatile last days of a crippling relationship are played out against the sensuous, surreal landscape of the Amazon. In a haunting story of survival, a daughter observes her mother s struggles to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. French expatriates find refuge in each other when they become clandestine lovers in Quebec, amidst the growing political hostilities that will eventually tear them apart. As a black community prepares to relocate from Africville, Nova Scotia, the town s oldest member is overwhelmed by her memories of life there. In a desperate effort to startle him into awareness of his family s growing unhappiness, a son plots an end to his father s string of good luck. When a woman tries to satisfy her lover s obsession with personal tragedy, the fiction she creates begins to eclipse the truth of her own past. A mother and da