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All the Voices Cry
Alice Petersen
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Description for All the Voices Cry
paperback. A native New Zealander's debut captures the perplexities and wonder of French-Canadian magic realism at its best--full of down-under merriment. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 199.
WINNER OF THE QWF FIRST BOOK PRIZE "Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories."--David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World Alice Petersen's All the Voices Cry is masterful and potent--incredibly satisfying for a reader. -- Kathleen Winter, author of Annabel An academic's wife, struggling to keep up with her husband's quest to find a long-dead author's Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender ... Read more
WINNER OF THE QWF FIRST BOOK PRIZE "Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories."--David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World Alice Petersen's All the Voices Cry is masterful and potent--incredibly satisfying for a reader. -- Kathleen Winter, author of Annabel An academic's wife, struggling to keep up with her husband's quest to find a long-dead author's Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781926845524
SKU
V9781926845524
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About Alice Petersen
Alice Petersen is a writer and critic whose work has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize, the Canada Broadcast Corporation Literary Awards, and the Writers' Union of Canada Short Story Competition. She was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in Montreal.
Reviews for All the Voices Cry
"Finely crafted and pared down to their bare essentials ... These are stories that work on multiple levels, and continue to divulge their secrets after several rereadings."
Quill & Quire "Among the book's pleasures are bursts of descriptive panache."
Globe and Mail "All the Voices Cry has to be counted one of the most assured short story debuts in recent years."
goodreports.net "Alice ... Read more
Quill & Quire "Among the book's pleasures are bursts of descriptive panache."
Globe and Mail "All the Voices Cry has to be counted one of the most assured short story debuts in recent years."
goodreports.net "Alice ... Read more