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Alexander, Joan:Lines of Truth and Conversation
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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: PORCUPINES QUILL, 192 Seiten, L=223mm, B=146mm, H=18mm, Gew.=345gr, [GR: 21110 - TB/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen], [SW: - Fic… More...
Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: PORCUPINES QUILL, 192 Seiten, L=223mm, B=146mm, H=18mm, Gew.=345gr, [GR: 21110 - TB/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen], [SW: - Fiction - General], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Joan Alexander's stories are intelligent and sure-footed investigations of the darker sides of urban life. They begin with familiar situations a the failure of a business, the death of a loved one, an affair that never gets physical a but they chart the rough terrain of emotional trauma with unsettling precision. Many of the stories in "Lines of Truth and Conversation" deal in the pangs and pumellings of loss in all its guises, but Alexander has a gift for bittersweet humour, and even her most harrowing stories are lightened by a sense of the comic continuity of life. Joan Alexander's stories are intelligent and sure-footed investigations of the darker sides of urban life. They begin with familiar situations -- the failure of a business, the death of a loved one, an affair that never gets physical -- but they chart the rough terrain of emotional trauma with unsettling precision.
Many of the stories in "Lines of Truth and Conversation" deal in the pangs and pumellings of loss in all its guises, but Alexander has a gift for bittersweet humour, and even her most harrowing stories are lightened by a sense of the comic continuity of life.<
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Joan Alexander:Lines of Truth and Conversation
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Alexander writes with a brash, comic, and socially sensitive touch that recalls Carol Shields. This isn''t hip, trendy, urban writing. It is unflinching, vivid, and frequently d… More...
Alexander writes with a brash, comic, and socially sensitive touch that recalls Carol Shields. This isn''t hip, trendy, urban writing. It is unflinching, vivid, and frequently domestic. Nino Ricci described the collection as possessing `an unbridled urgency and wit.... At once eccentric and precisely observed, they seem to hum with the energy of everything in life that is unreasonable and can''t quite be contained.'' Joan Alexander, Books, Fiction and Literature, Lines of Truth and Conversation Books>Fiction and Literature Joan Alexander's stories are intelligent and sure-footed investigations of the darker sides of urban life. They begin with familiar situations -- the failure of a business, the death of a loved one, an affair that never gets physical -- but they chart the rough terrain of emotional trauma with unsettling precision.
Many of the stories in "Lines of Truth and Conversation" deal in the pangs and pumellings of loss in all its guises, but Alexander has a gift for bittersweet humour, and even her most harrowing stories are lightened by a sense of the comic continuity of life.<
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Alexander, Joan:Lines Of Truth And Conversation
- First edition 2005, ISBN: 088984271X
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[EAN: 9780889842717], Neubuch, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, JOAN ALEXANDER, CANADIAN FICTION, Original printed wraps. 192 pp. Octavo. Joan Alexand… More...
[EAN: 9780889842717], Neubuch, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, JOAN ALEXANDER, CANADIAN FICTION, Original printed wraps. 192 pp. Octavo. Joan Alexander's stories are intelligent and sure-footed investigations of the darker sides of urban life. They begin with familiar situations -- the failure of a business, the death of a loved one, an affair that never gets physical -- but they chart the rough terrain of emotional trauma with unsettling precision. Many of the stories in Lines of Truth and Conversation deal in the pangs and pumellings of loss in all its guises, but Alexander has a gift for bittersweet humour, and even her most harrowing stories are lightened by a sense of the comic continuity of life. Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures, with hand-tipped endleaves, front and back.<
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Joan Alexander:Lines of Truth and Conversation
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Alexander writes with a brash, comic, and socially sensitive touch that recalls Carol Shields. This isn''t hip, trendy, urban writing. It is unflinching, vivid, and frequently d… More...
Alexander writes with a brash, comic, and socially sensitive touch that recalls Carol Shields. This isn''t hip, trendy, urban writing. It is unflinching, vivid, and frequently domestic. Nino Ricci described the collection as possessing `an unbridled urgency and wit.... At once eccentric and precisely observed, they seem to hum with the energy of everything in life that is unreasonable and can''t quite be contained.'' Joan Alexander, Books, Fiction and Literature, Lines of Truth and Conversation Books>Fiction and Literature, Porcupine's Quill<
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Alexander writes with a brash, comic, and socially sensitive touch that recalls Carol Shields. This isn't hip, trendy, urban writing. It is unflinching, vivid, and frequently domestic. Ni… More...
Alexander writes with a brash, comic, and socially sensitive touch that recalls Carol Shields. This isn't hip, trendy, urban writing. It is unflinching, vivid, and frequently domestic. Nino Ricci described the collection as possessing 'an unbridled urgency and wit.... At once eccentric and precisely observed, they seem to hum with the energy of everything in life that is unreasonable and can't quite be contained.' anthologies,contemporary,fiction,literature and fiction,short stories,world literature Literature & Fiction, Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated<
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