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"The collection consistently does what the oeuvre does best: communicate intense emotion with force, give life to characters that struggle with their circumstances, illuminate the universal through the specific and the particular, and turn the commonplace into art." Globe and Mail "[The anthology] amuses, astonishes, and enlightens; it is a delicious cacophony of voices and engaging stories . . ."Books in Canada The Journey Prize Stories is Canada's most celebrated annual fiction anthology, presenting the best stories published each year by some of our most exciting up-and-coming writers. Among the stories this year: Desperate to reinvent himself, a disgraced diplomat on what will be the last assignment of his career goes in search of a woman from his past in Eastern Croatia. As a teacher begins to unravel in the aftermath of a school shooting, a series of surprising encounters with her former students reveals their differing degrees of resiliency. Bench presses and Wonder Woman comics create an unexpected intimacy between a teenager and her Ukrainian-language tutor, a former female champion weightlifter. After his junkie uncle moves into the basement to hide out from his dealer an

Author

Various; Camilla Gibb; Lee Henderson; Rebecca Rosenblum

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771033636

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction