Agassiz Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780771014642)

Vendor: Sandra Birdsell
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Agassiz Stories

$19.99

Agassiz Stories

$19.99
Format: Paperback
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The superbly crafted stories in this internationally acclaimed collection trace four generations of the Lafrenière family in the fictional small town of Agassiz, Manitoba, from the time of the great flood of 1950 to the present. There is Mika, the matriarch of the family, tired of being a mother to her children, and her Métis husband, Maurice, who is by turns fascinated and ashamed of his Native heritage. Their marriage has long been an uneasy truce. As their children grow up to pursue their own lives, the frustrations of one generation will collide with the dreams of another, and the past will leave an indelible mark on all that is to come. Agassiz Stories is at once funny and heartbreaking, and written with a rare, illuminating honesty.

Author: Sandra Birdsell
ISBN-10: 0771014643
ISBN-13: 9780771014642
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2002
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.38w x 0.84d
By Sandra Birdsell
By Sandra Birdsell
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Sandra Birdsell was born in Manitoba and, until recently, has spent most of her life in Winnipeg. Her first novel, The Missing Child (1989), won the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her second novel, The Chrome Suite (1992), and her most recent collection of short fiction, The Two-Headed Calf (1997), were both shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Her two previous short story collections, Night Travellers and Ladies of the House, were reissued in 1987 as Agassiz Stories. Her most recent novel, The Russländer (2001), won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction, the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year, and the Regina Book Award, and was a finalist for the Giller Prize.

Sandra Birdsell's fiction has been anthologized and has appeared in literary journals and Saturday Night magazine.

She lives in Regina.

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