All the Voices Cry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781926845524)

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 redheads, Champlain's astrolabe, and a brush with mortality--and finds at least the latter at Danseuses 7 Jours. An elderly man boards a trans-Pacific flight in an attempt to elude the prediction of a psychic, only to understand too late how the prophecy has shaped his actions.

In All the Voices Cry, modern life collides with all the old pushes and pulls: city and country, the global and the local, the ideal and the real. Petersen's characters chase the mirage of escape, and are brought up hard by reality. This is a book rooted in landscape, tangled in the brambles of personal history, and it introduces in Alice Petersen a wondrous new voice that is yours to discover.

Alice Petersen is a writer and critic whose work has been shortlisted for numerous Canadian prizes and awards. She was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.


Author: Alice Petersen
ISBN-10: 1926845528
ISBN-13: 9781926845524
Publisher: Biblioasis
Language: English
Published: 05/22/2012
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 04/01/2012 pg. 29