Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China
by Guy Delisle
from Drawn and Quarterly
Maggie Cassidy
by Jack Kerouac
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Thirty Acres (New Canadian Library)
by Ringuet
from New Canadian Library
One of the most important books to come out of Quebec, Thirty Acres traces the course of one man’s life as he enters into the age-old rhythms of the land and of the seasons. At the same time, it is a novel on a grand social scale, spanning and documenting the tumultuous half-century in which a new, industrial urban society crowded out Quebec’s traditional rural one.
Winner of the Governor General’s Award and numerous other national and international literary prizes, Thirty Acres is a universal story of birth and death, renewal and reversal, ascent and decline, and a masterpiece of irony and realism.
Les Belles Soeurs: (Revised)
by Michel Tremblay
from Talonbooks
Marie Blythe (Hardscrabble Books)
by Howard Frank Mosher
from Vermont
Howard Frank Mosher is one of the best-loved writers of northern New England, one who has "created a literary landscape as textured as anything produced by the U. S. Geological Survey," according to USA Today. His "greatest gift," says the Washington Post, is "his talent for creating lively, living characters." One of his most vivid and memorable characters is Marie Blythe.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young girl with a felicitous name immigrates to Vermont from French Canada. She grows up confronting the grim realities of life with an indomitable spirit--nursing victims of a tuberculosis epidemic, enduring a miscarriage alone in the wilderness, and coping with the uncertainties of love. In Marie Blythe, Mosher has created a strong-minded, passionate, and truly memorable heroine.
A Few Acres of Snow
A collection of twenty-two essays that explore, from the geographer's perspective, how poets, artists, and writers have addressed the physical essence of Canada.
Fade
A History of Canadian Literature
by W. H. New
from McGill-Queen's University Press
New...has written an untraditional book, for it approaches Canadian literature in a novel fashion, includes a whole new aspect of the national written record, places books in a supplementary chronological table...that relates them to international social and cultural events and movements, and assumes both the general reader and the scholar as its user.--Choice
The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories
by Roch Carrier
from House Of Anansi
The Tin Flute (New Canadian Library)
by Gabrielle Roy
from New Canadian Library
The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy’s unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for love.
An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival during the Second World War, The Tin Flute won both the Governor General’s Award and the Prix FĂ©mina of France. The novel was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture in 1983.
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