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Saints of Big Harbour (signed)

de Coady, Lynn

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9780385258685
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Canada: Doubleday Canada, 2002. First printing. Signed by author on title page. Fine / Fine. Protected in mylar.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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“What I look for in writing is something that is really multi-faceted, that’s able to depict life in all its wonder and absurdity at the same time.” Coady was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her stunning debut novel, Strange Heaven . She received the CAA / Air Canada Award for most promising writer under 30, and the Dartmouth Book and Writing Award for Fiction. Her collection of short stories Play the Monster Blind spent 27 weeks on the National Post Best Seller list, and was a finalist for Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. Her articles, reviews and short stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines across Canada including Chatelaine , This magazine and Saturday Night . She has given readings across the country. Born in 1970, Lynn Coady grew up in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in the town of Port Hawkesbury which, she has said, combined the pollution of an industrial town with the fishbowl qualities of a rural one, where everyone knows one another’s business. She didn’t think like everybody else -- “For a long time I thought I was insane.” When she started out writing, literary influences such as David Adams Richards showed her it was possible to write meaningfully about Maritime communities. However, the stories she read about Cape Breton were elegiac and rural, dominated by heroic men; hers were different experiences, and she would create what Georgia Straight called “a Cape Breton unlike any we have seen before”. Having written stories, poems and plays for as long as she could remember, Coady went to Ottawa in 1988 to attend journalism school at Carleton University, hoping journalism would allow her to turn love of writing into a living. But after the first year, she wasn’t invited back, and ended up studying English and Philosophy. “I tend to do badly in things I’m not interested in. That’s why I started taking my writing seriously. I recognized that there was nothing else I had any real interest in.” So she headed to New Brunswick, where her boyfriend Charles was taking a master’s degree. She spent three years reading and writing. Her full-length play Cowboy Names won a contest and was staged in Fredericton, and a story was picked up by Fiddlehead’s 50-year anniversary edition. Then a publisher expressed interest in her novel in progress. The book was nearing completion when she landed a fellowship to the creative writing program of the University of British Columbia in 1996. “I looked at it as a two-year writing sabbatical where I tried to avoid my obligations as a student and just write.” In 2000, after being nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Strange Heaven , she was invited back to be writer-in-residence at University of British Columbia’s Green College. In Strange Heaven , she explored the effects of religion and tightly knit communities on the development of a young woman, drawing on elements of her own life. Coady left home pregnant at the age of 18, expected to give up the baby and carry on as if it had never happened. She returned childless and wiser, and only a few years later began to explore her experience in fiction, using her memories of oppressive, hypocritical attitudes towards women and sex. “Being a pregnant teenager set me off on the philosophical path that I eventually went down. It blew society wide open for me.” Strange Heaven also examined the experience of being an adopted child, as Coady was, being raised to “feel the pride of kinship” while feeling physically out of place. In her second book, she continued to write about Cape Breton, although some of the stories contrasted Maritime communities with the urban Canadian west. She has lived in Vancouver since her mid-twenties, but still finds rich territory to mine in Cape Breton, and increasingly enjoys peppering her dialogue with the Gaelic-inspired accent. “Writing something set in British Columbia makes me feel like a fraud, because I’m not as sure of the surroundings or the feel of the place. It’s like renting someone’s house, furnished, so that the place means nothing to you and the furniture means nothing to you.” Moving away from Cape Breton allowed her to write about it, giving her a setting she understands deeply in which to explore the vulnerabilities of people everywhere. Now, with her third book being published internationally, she is pleased to be able to write full-time, without having to bother with minimum-wage jobs, such as the $5-an-hour job she had in a Saint John day-care. She also enjoys feeling confident that she must be doing something right. “When you’re a struggling artist and you’re not getting any kind of affirmation or any kind of approval, that’s when it’s hardest to be an artist, but that’s when it’s most important to keep doing it.” From the Hardcover edition.

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Librería
Lindenlea Books CA (CA)
Inventario del vendedor #
002033
Título
Saints of Big Harbour (signed)
Autor
Coady, Lynn
Formato/Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Estado del libro
Usado - Aceptable
Estado de la sobrecubierta
Fine
Edición
First Edition
ISBN 10
0385258682
ISBN 13
9780385258685
Editorial
Doubleday Canada
Lugar de publicación
Canada
Fecha de publicación
2002
Tamaño
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Palabras clave
Lynn Coady, Big Harbour (Nova Scotia) - Fiction
Catálogos del vendedor
Canadian;

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