Sharon Butala
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A collection of essays on women and aging from Canadian legend Sharon Butala
"What I didn't have a clue about was that I was soon to be old, or what being old would mean to my dreams and desires. While dreading old age with every fiber, I was at the same time in full denial that it would ever happen to me, and so, was shocked down to the soles of my feet when it did."
In this incisive collection, Sharon Butala reflects on the ways her life has changed...
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Lucia spends her days looking after her sister, Elaine, who was struck with polio as a child and is unable to care for herself as she battles lung cancer. As Elaine's condition worsens, Lucia reads memoirs and first-person accounts of the Holocaust, which help her better understand her own position as an unhappy witness to the slow deterioration of a life.
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With his farm suffering due to drought, his wife incapacitated by depression after a miscarriage, and the house-which seems to be haunted-likely to be foreclosed, Gabriel cannot keep up with all the things going wrong in his life. It soon seems that both nature and the supernatural are teaming up to send him a message, but it is up to him to figure out what that message might be.
Fever is a collection of sixteen short stories that reveal the secret...
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When it was first published, The Perfection of the Morning catapulted Sharon Butala into literary stardom, causing the Toronto Star to crown her as "one of this country's true visionaries." At once a meditation on the world of nature and a personal and spiritual exploration of the roots of creativity, The Perfection of the Morning is Sharon Butala's search for a connection with the prairie that encompassed and often overwhelmed her. More resonant...
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In the middle of a viciously cold winter, Bonny finds everything starting to fall apart around her-her husband is away for days at a time, their marriage is suffering due to financial trouble, and their farm is being seized by the bank. Through it all, Bonny fights to do right by her family and to find a way to weather the harsh conditions they face.
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A woman examines a box of her mother's personal photos that has been sitting unopened in her basement since her mother's death. Now, as she discovers images once meaningful to her mother, she begins to piece together stories of the girl her mother once was and to reveal questions to which she may never find answers.
Fever is a collection of sixteen short stories that reveal the secret inner lives of women and men, skillfully peeling back their defenses...
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Dr. Mowbray no longer feels that he is a healer, but instead believes that he carries death with him. Mr. Baker, dying in the hospital, dreams of being surrounded by the beauty of nature-a bamboo forest, the Sahara Desert, a sunny glade. Watching over the old man, Dr. Mowbray begins to see the lush world of Mr. Baker's dreams and wonders how he can learn to truly understand life when he is always surrounded by death.
Fever is a collection of sixteen...
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When the book jury that Jenna is a member of makes a controversial decision, neither she nor her fellow jurors are prepared for the backlash. While travelling to Toronto to visit friends and publicize her own book, Jenna is confronted by the woman whose book should have won the prize. This chance meeting forces Jenna to address her reasons for not fighting harder for the outcome she wanted.
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When Alexis and her son, Jamie, are interviewed about a play based on their lives, Alexis recalls meaningful moments throughout their relationship and learns that she and Jamie do not share the same opinions about the events defining their lives. Throughout the interview, Alexis struggles to discover the truth of how her actions affected her son's life.
Fever is a collection of sixteen short stories that reveal the secret inner lives of women and...
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Though Jeanne hasn't seen or spoken to her ex-husband in years, learning of his death brings up memories of their past. Jeanne remembers the happiness of their early days together and how alive they had been, the memories contrasting with the life she is now leading-she is single, out of touch with her daughter, and feeling as though her changing body is somehow inextricably linked to her ex-husband's passing.
Fever is a collection of sixteen short...
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A woman recounts her childhood growing up with four sisters, little money, and parents who fought constantly until her father finally left. Even as adults, the sisters do not know how to cope with harmony, and not one of them is able to fully escape the impact of a childhood lived in discord.
Fever is a collection of sixteen short stories that reveal the secret inner lives of women and men, skillfully peeling back their defenses to expose crystallizing...
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A woman meets up with her ex-husband, Lawrence, days before he leaves for Africa. He has said seemingly final goodbyes to his parents, has had no relationships in years, and will be leaving for the continent with almost nothing tying him to the life he has been living. During their conversation, however, the woman begins to realize just how connected to Lawrence she still is and always will be.
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A woman recounts her experience of being raped twenty-five years ago and explores the event's profound influence on her life. She examines her feelings of helpless acceptance, self-blame, and denial, exposing and challenging her society's expectations of how she should react to this tragic experience.
14) Fever: Stories
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Winner of the 1992 Authors Award for Paperback Fiction, Fever was also nominated for a Commonwealth Award. Like Real Life, Sharon Butala's newest collection of short fiction, it is a collection of short stories that reveals the secret inner lives of women and men, skillfully peeling back their defenses to expose crystallizing moments of joy, pain, fear and guiltless pleasure. In "Fever," a woman whose husband suddenly becomes deathly ill finds herself...
15) Garden Of Eden
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Now, in what many are predicting will be her most powerful novel ever, Sharon Butala returns to Perfection territory in a profoundly moving tale of two generations of western women and their search to heal themselves.
A farmwoman like her mother and her grandmother before her, Iris finds her comfortable rhythm of prairie life shattered forever when her husband dies suddenly. She begins a search for the niece she raised as a daughter, but has not...
16) Luna
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Luna is bestselling author Sharon Butala's second brilliant novel in her loosely linked trilogy that begins with The Gates of the Sun, and ends with The Fourth Archangel. Selling out its first printing within months when it was first re-issued in 1994, this is a classic Sharon Butala novel.
Luna is the story of three prairie women at the crossroads of their lives. Rhea, still strong and proud at 80, contemplates her death, and her pioneer life,...
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On a very dark night, Janet attends a party with her friends Livie and Nathan, where she meets Baker and begins a relationship with him. It is not until much later that Janet begins to unravel his nice-guy exterior and learns that Baker is perhaps not who he seems.
Fever is a collection of sixteen short stories that reveal the secret inner lives of women and men, skillfully peeling back their defenses to expose crystallizing moments of joy, pain,...
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Though happy in her current marriage, a woman remains unable to truly move past her first marriage-feeling constantly like she is living a double life: one internal and one external. Her struggles with the breakup stem not from the loss of love, but from the one-sidedness of the split, which leaves her feeling as though she'll never recover.
Fever is a collection of sixteen short stories that reveal the secret inner lives of women and men, skillfully...
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As a child, Charlotte spent her summers with her cousins in a house that was the polar opposite of her own. Where her household was organized and ran according to schedule, her cousins lived in a state of constant chaos. For Charlotte, this was both exciting and frightening, especially when her aunt's cousin Dorcas-who is said to hear spirits-came to visit, her presence enhancing the already strange atmosphere of the house.
Fever is a collection of...
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When her father-in-law dies, Carol prepares to go through the process of grieving with her husband. What she does not expect is to become entrenched in memories of her own father and their distant relationship, an experience that leads her to consider the many ways in which people mourn and begin to let their loved ones go.
Fever is a collection of sixteen short stories that reveal the secret inner lives of women and men, skillfully peeling back their...