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What Can You Do

Stories

Cynthia Flood author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Biblioasis

Published:26th Oct '17

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A new collection from noted feminist author and winner of the prestigious Journey Prize for short fiction.New collection from a writer who has won four major fiction prizes from institutions and magazines across Canada Flood's last book, Red Girl Rat Boy (2014) was a finalist for both the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was selected as a "Best Book / Best Short Fiction" of the year by 4 major media outlets in Canada. Possible blurbs from Nancy Richler, Cary Fagan, Kate Cayley, Meredith Quartermain, Caroline Adderson, Irina Kovalyova Voice-driven stories (compare: Anakana Schofield), highly inflected, with remarkable character range (of age, class, gender) Realist fiction with a considerable variety of length, style, voice, and tone often dealing with the ways in which people deceive themselves about their motives.

ISBN: 9781771961769

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148 pages