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| Book: | The Roaring Girl: Stories |
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| Author: | Greg Hollingshead |
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| Publisher: | Harvest Books |
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Erudite yet immediate, the dozen stories that make up this collection from Canadian writer Greg Hollingshead are set in the familiar urban and suburban worlds of everyday life. With a deceptively simple prose, a sharp ear for dialogue and the telling moments of existence, and a skewed sense of humor, Hollingshead peels back the surface to reveal the psychological terrors and injuries that inform his characters.
The Roaring Girl, the author’s first book to be published in the United States, was a bestseller in Canada, where it won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 1995, putting him in the company of Canadian writers such as Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood.
From “an eerily original, powerfully moving distinctive voice” (Time Out) comes a collection of funny, disturbing suburban tales that invite comparisons to Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor. Winner of Canada’s Governor-General’s Literary Award.
