Canadian women have made remarkable contributions to world literature over the past 150 years, especially to the short story genre. Carol Shields won the Pulitzer Prize, and Margaret Atwood, Janette Turner Hospital, and Shields were all short-listed for the Booker Award. Now available in paperback, this book offers work from not only those prestigious names, but assembles a diverse cross-section of Canadian women's writing. Together, the fifty stories included here form a kind of collective narrative of women's experience ...
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Canadian women have made remarkable contributions to world literature over the past 150 years, especially to the short story genre. Carol Shields won the Pulitzer Prize, and Margaret Atwood, Janette Turner Hospital, and Shields were all short-listed for the Booker Award. Now available in paperback, this book offers work from not only those prestigious names, but assembles a diverse cross-section of Canadian women's writing. Together, the fifty stories included here form a kind of collective narrative of women's experience past and present. All the stories are about women: in childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age; in relationships as daughters, sisters, lovers, mothers; and in a variety of social and political contexts. Their authors reflect Canada's racial and ethnic diversity as well as its geographic expanse, and the writers cover a wide range of styles from documentary narrative, romance adventure, and satiric social comedy to science fiction and postmodern metafiction. But regardless of genre, they all write confidently and eloquently about women's lives. No reader will fail to be amused, enthralled, intrigued, and invigorated.
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 592 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 00268535 Type of material Book Main title The Oxford book of stories by Canadian women in English / edited by Rosemary Sullivan. Published/Created Don Mills, Ont.; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Description xv, 592 p.; 24 cm. ISBN LC classification PR9197.33. W65 O94 1999 Portion of title Stories by Canadian women Related names Sullivan, Rosemary, 1947-Subjects Canadian fiction--Women authors. Canadian fiction--20th century. Women--Canada--Fiction. Short stories, Canadian. Canada--Social life and customs--Fiction. Notes Includes and index. Dewey class no. 813/.01089287/0971 Geographic area code n-cn---National bib no. C99-931720-2 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocm41978544
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0195414268. Light rubbing to d/j, bruising to top tips. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Heavy/oversize item-additional shipping charges may be required depending on speed/destination requested.; 9.35 X 6.34 X 1.47 inches; 500 pages.
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Very Good+ No Jacket as Issued. Book First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 1 to 4; French flaps format; minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectable condition.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0195414268. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Minor rubbing to d/j.; 9.35 X 6.34 X 1.47 inches; 500 pages.
