Lisa Alward

Cocktail

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award ¿ Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction ¿ Shortlisted for the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction ¿One of the Globe and Mail's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" ¿ Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 ¿ A Miramichi Reader Best Book of 2023 ¿ A Tyee Best Book of 2023"A writer to watch."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he's made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details-a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall-and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biblioasis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 126mm x 198mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781771965620
• ISBN-10: 1771965622
• Artikelnr.: 67372660

Autorenporträt

Lisa Alward's stories have won The Fiddlehead Prize and the Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award and have appeared in Best Canadian Stories as well as The Journey Prize Stories. She grew up in Halifax and worked for several years in literary publishing in Toronto before moving with her family to Vancouver and ultimately to Fredericton, where she lives with her husband, John.