The folks who populate The Appendage Formerly Known as Your Left Arm are a motley crew—as colourful and sundry a collection of characters as ever turned up between two covers. […]
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Short Stories
<p><strong><em>T</em></strong><strong ><em>he Gull Workshop</em> is a collection of stories that features a unique combination of thematic seriousness and comic style.</strong></p> <p>The characters in <em>The Gull Workshop</em> are often in search […]
<p><strong>Warm, funny, and stylistically savvy, these stories follow an interlocking set of characters and the people they love.</strong></p> <p>Characters weave their way in and out of <em>The Love Olympics</em>, a […]
Growing up can be both thrilling and treacherous in small-town Newfoundland, where a young person will experience the joys and struggles of life in ways that are unique to isolated, […]
These stories take the reader from the sparse, tense writing of the prequel to Glace Bay Miner’s Museum, through the author’s other stories drawn from his Cape Breton home. A critically acclaimed success.
<p><b>Contemporary short story collection exploring privilege, perspective, and contradiction from the celebrated author of <i>Brighten the Corner Where You Are</i> and <i>A Bird on Every Tree</i>.</b></p> <p>”Bruneau is a master. […]
In Two-Man Tent, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, Robert Chafe, offers his long-awaited collection of short fiction. The individual stories are thematically linked by an interwoven, recurring tale of […]
<p><strong>The interconnected stories of<em> Vigil</em> are packed with uncomfortable characters caught in situations of complex morality, with each piece both a chapter in the overall story and also a stand-alone […]
<p><b>A stunning debut collection of linked short stories exploring the promises and disappointments of modern life, edited by award-winning author Alexander MacLeod.</b></p> <p>These are the stories of the people who […]
Larry Gibbons spent ten years on a Mi’kmaw reserve-held there by his love for a woman, not by any typical white role such as priest or social worker or teacher. Stirred by the tenderness, tenacity, and flexibility of Mi’kmaw extended family, and challenged by a native spirituality so different from his own upbringing, Gibbons found his voice as a writer. Out of that he created the remarkable stories in White Eyes. In a writing style that is casual but rigorous, Gibbons’ voice-always passionate, often confused, frequently marvelously comedic-offers a unique bridge between white and native culture, even as he entertains with a sharp, self-deprecating eye.
<p>Winter Road is the latest collection of short stories by one of Canada?s most gifted and accomplished storytellers. An award-winning master craftsman of short fiction, Wayne Curtis takes us on a journey from early schooldays to old age, all in a singular rural New Brunswick setting of times gone by.</p> <p>Here are illuminating stories of love, heartbreak, daydreams, and expectations – fulfilled and unfulfilled. Curtis charts the lives of small-town boys and girls, men and women who struggle with the challenges and limitations of poverty, isolation, and a kind of discrimination rarely documented in fiction.</p> <p>Each work is marked by the insight of a veteran author whose life has been dedicated to the creation of a singular fictional world unique to the Maritimes but universal in its echoes of the unending longing of the human spirit. It is a world where dreams are born and die and sometimes live on despite the odds.</p>
Born in 1910 Montana, Tessie Gillis in the 1950s came with her husband Joe to Rear Glencoe in Inverness County to live the hard,satisfying life of rural Cape Breton. Illness finally gave her the opportunity to write, and her friend and editor Evelyn Garbary helped her bloom into one of Cape Breton’s finest writers.
