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Lives: Whole and Otherwise
by H Nigel Thomas |
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Fiction/Stories
Paperback
ISBN: 9781894770613
$20.95
Epub ISBN: 9781894770866
$9.99
160 pages
Publication Date:
October 15, 2010
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Lives: Whole and Otherwise—October 2010
Meet Mary Fellows, a sex-worker organizing a demonstration on St
Catherine Street; how can she make the Anglican dean support it?
. . . Disappointment follows disappointment as Margaret tries to
find a suitable man; her latest folly is the suave younger man
she brought over from Jamaica; . . . Greta, a domestic help,
proudly holds up her son’s high school diploma; but can he read
it? . . .
These stories from Montreal present a gallery of characters,
Caribbean immigrants desperate and triumphant, always struggling
against the odds, as they make their way through the maze of
urban life.
Lives breaks the stereotypes to give us a side of Canada rarely
acknowledged.
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"In Thomas’ hands the interior monologue becomes a powerful tool for voicing character and experience. Time and again he demonstrates his skill at reproducing the speech patterns of characters with Caribbean origins to mesmerizing effect. . . . the stories contained in Lives Whole and Otherwise are all about shaking one frame or another. H. Nigel Thomas gives voice to a hard social reality that refuses the glib formulas of traditional narrative form." —The Rover
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H Nigel Thomas is
the author of seven books: three novels, Spirits in the Dark
(shortlisted for the QSPELL Hugh MacClennan Fiction Award),
Behind the Face of Winter, and Return to Arcadia; a
collection of short stories, How Loud Can the Village Cock
Crow; a collection of poems, Moving through Darkness;
and two works of non-fiction, From Folklore to Fiction: A
Study of Folk Heroes and Rituals in the Black American Novel,
and Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets
and Novelists. He is a former Montreal high-school teacher
and retired professor of US literature at Université Laval, and
now lives in Montreal. |
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