Hugh Garner's Best Stories received the Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the Great Depression to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, and second-wave feminism. Garner takes on issues ranging from anglophone-francophone conflict in Canada to racism in the American South, from the disenfranchisement of First ...
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Hugh Garner's Best Stories received the Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the Great Depression to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, and second-wave feminism. Garner takes on issues ranging from anglophone-francophone conflict in Canada to racism in the American South, from the disenfranchisement of First Nations people to the mistreatment of the mentally disabled. Best Stories is not only notable for the devastating precision of its prose, but also for its contribution to the Spanish Civil War literary canon. This new edition brings short fiction by Garner into conversation with the wider canon of Canadian and transnational leftist and proletarian literature.
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New. Hugh Garner's Governor General Award-winning Best Stories depicts working-class life in North America and Europe between the Great Depression and the Quiet Revolution, emphasizing the Spanish Civil War's integral role in Canadian and transnational identity formation. Editor(s): Robins Sharpe, Emily. Series: Canadian Literature Collection. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 378. 2015. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.