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Lovers Fall Back to Earth
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771334815
Pub Date: April 2018
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Finalist for 2019 International Book Awards for Literary Fiction
)Lovers Fall Back to Earth is a human drama about three sisters, the men they marry, and the repercussions in their lives when disaster strikes. The sisters fall in love while they are at university and the three couples become part of a group of students who are shaped by the ideas of the sixties and who meet to discuss ideas of liberty, politics, and environmentalism. Young and idealistic revolutionaries, they believe they can change the world, as they hold forth in the smoking room where they spout philosophies about personal freedom. They form strong relationships and marry but, inevitably, each couple chooses a different life style. Amelia and Reuben live as hippies, Esther and George choose a middle-class upward-mobility life, Helen and Benjamin are the academics. When an unexpected tragedy shatters the lives of all three couples, they are forced to...
Moments of Joy
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771331975
Pub Date: May 2015
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Manfred Weiszl lies dying of cancer in an upper room of a grand old Toronto house. His last wish is to see his son, Rupert, from whom he has been estranged for sixteen years, and much of the action derives from attempts to get Rupert's cooperation. Manfred's sister Pauline, the housekeeper Marie (and Marie's boyfriend Steve), as well as Manfred's dead wife, Gertrude are central to Manfred's life and each have their role to play in the unfolding drama of a family in crisis dealing with issues of death, marriage breakup, gender identity, and generally just trying to find ways to live. The novel explores how these characters interact with each other and play off each other, and how an intervening fate operates in their lives as they discover that through (or in spite of ) the incredible antics of mankind, life can be salvaged, can be joyful and magical....
Prisoner of Cage Farm
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CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781552381168
Pub Date: October 2003
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
A heartland novel set in post-war rural Alberta, The Prisoner of Cage Farm evokes Canadian prairie classics like Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese and F. P. Grove's Settlers of the Marsh. The McFaddens are...
Lovers Fall Back to Earth
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771334815
Pub Date: April 2018
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Finalist for 2019 International Book Awards for Literary Fiction
)Lovers Fall Back to Earth is a human drama about three sisters, the men they marry, and the repercussions in their lives when disaster strikes. The sisters fall in love while they are at university and the three couples become part of a group of students who are shaped by the ideas of the sixties and who meet to discuss ideas of liberty, politics, and environmentalism. Young and idealistic revolutionaries, they believe they can change the world, as they hold forth in the smoking room where they spout philosophies about personal freedom. They form strong relationships and marry but, inevitably, each couple chooses a different life style. Amelia and Reuben live as hippies, Esther and George choose a middle-class upward-mobility life, Helen and Benjamin are the academics. When an unexpected tragedy shatters the lives of all three couples, they are forced to...
Moments of Joy
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771331975
Pub Date: May 2015
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Prisoner of Cage Farm
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781552381168
Pub Date: October 2003
Imprint: University of Calgary Press