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Winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction. One of the Globe and Mail Fiction to Read in Fall 2023. AMiramichi Reader Best Book of 2023....
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Winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction.
One of the Globe and Mail Fiction to Read in Fall 2023. AMiramichi Reader Best Book of 2023. ATyee 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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781771965620
Publisher: Biblioasis
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 March 2024
Country: Canada
Imprint: Biblioasis
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 224
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About the Author
Lisa Alward's short fiction has appeared in The Journey Prize and twice in Best Canadian Stories. She has won the Fiddlehead Prize as well as the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, has been a finalist for The Malahat Review's Open Season Award, an honourable mention in the Peter Hinchcliffe Award, and been featured on numerous other long lists, including for the CBC Story Prize and Prism International's Jacob Zilber Prize (three times). She was born and grew up in Halifax and completed an English degree at the University of Toronto and an MA at Queen Mary College in London, England. In the eighties and early nineties, she worked in book publishing in Toronto, before moving with her young family to Vancouver and ultimately to Fredericton, New Brunswick, where at fifty she began to write stories. Cocktail (Biblioasis), which received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews, is her debut collection.
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