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McClelland & Stewart
Language
English
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A magnificent, elegiac, and compelling novel of intersecting lives, set mainly in Ireland in the 1950s and in the years before the war. A telling of the interconnected stories of Tamara, a former pilot during World War II; her married lover Niall, a charismatic Irishman and meteorologist; and his troubled younger brother Kieran who, at age 11, is separated from his family and fostered in a mountain home by a maternal countrywoman. Strongly evocative,...
2) Astra
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Language
English
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Raised on a remote BC commune by a neglectful father, Astra Brine eventually leaves for Calgary, where she struggles to find her way in the world, her life becoming a study of the thin line between dependence and love, need and desire. As her path intersects with others-- often only briefly, but always intensely-- she will encounter people who, by turns, want to rescue, control, become, change, and escape her, revealing difficult yet shining truths...
3) There there
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English
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"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after...
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