Arvida (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771960427)

Finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize

Finalist for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award

One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2015

A twenty-five-thousand-copy bestseller in Quebec, Arvida, with its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips heading nowhere, is unforgettable. Like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy, Samuel Archibald's portrait of his hometown, a model town design by American industrialist Arthur Vining Davis, does for Quebec's North what William Faulkner did for the South, and heralds an important new voice in world literature.

Samuel Archibald teaches contemporary popular culture at the University of Quebec in Montreal, where he lectures on genre fiction, horror movies, and video games, among other subjects.


Author: Samuel Archibald
ISBN-10: 1771960426
ISBN-13: 9781771960427
Publisher: Biblioasis
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2015
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.60d
Award: Scotiabank Giller Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2015
Quill & Quire 10/01/2015 pg. 30
Publishers Weekly 11/02/2015