What Can You Do
Stories
Will be published approx. on 26. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
148 pages
978-1-77196-176-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Emeryville
Canada
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 188 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77196-176-9 (9781771961769)
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Cynthia Flood's most recent book, Red Girl Rat Boy (Biblioasis 2013) was shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes' fiction award and long-listed for the Frank O'Connor award, besides appearing on ?best of year" lists for Quill & Quire and January Magazine. Earlier collections are The English Stories (Biblioasis 2009), My Father Took a Cake to France, and The Animals in their Elements. Her work has been selected six times for Best Canadian Stories, and appears often in both print and on-line literary magazines. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.