Contemporary Canadian Literature with a Distinctly Urban Twist
newest releases
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Mayan Horror: How To Survive the End of the World in 2012
Non-Fiction | Bob Robertson
November 2011 | 160 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-87-5
$16 CAN / $16 US
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A Credit To Your Race
Fiction | Truman Green
October 2011 | 160 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-86-8
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Who Killed Janet Smith?
Non-Fiction | Edward Starkins
October 2011 | 406 pp | 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-897535-85-1
$24 CAN / $24 US
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Shag Carpet Action
Fiction | Matthew Firth
October 2011 | 160 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-84-4
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960
Non-Fiction | Diane Purvey & John Belshaw
November 2011 | 224 pp | 7.5 x 9.5
ISBN 978-1-897535-83-7
$25 CAN / $25 US
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Exit
Fiction | Nelly Arcan (translated by David Scott Hamilton)
Spring 2011 | 192 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-66-0
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Hard Hed
Fiction | Charles Tidler
Spring 2011 | 192 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-69-1
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Afflictions & Departures
Non-Fiction | Madeline Sonik
Spring 2011 | 184 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-67-7
$20 CAN / $20 US
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The Song Collides
Poetry | Calvin Wharton
Spring 2011 | 80 pp | 5.5 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-68-4
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Galaxy
Poetry | Rachel Thompson
Spring 2011 | 104 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-71-4
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Nondescript Rambunctious
Fiction | Jackie Bateman
Spring 2011 | 204 pp | 5.5 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-70-7
$20 CAN / $20 US
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The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers
Non-Fiction | Myrl Coulter
Spring 2011 | 214 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-72-1
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Ravenna Gets (Winner, 2011 ReLit Award!)
Fiction | Tony Burgess
Fall 2010 | 96 pp | 5.25 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-32-5
$16 CAN / $16 US
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The Mountie at Niagara Falls
Fiction | Salvatore Difalco
Fall 2010 | 144 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-33-2
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Vs. (Finalist, Acorn-Plantos Award)
Poetry | Kerry Ryan
Fall 2010 | 96 pp | 5 x 7
ISBN 978-1-897535-34-9
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Spaz
Fiction | Bonnie Bowman
Fall 2010 | 368 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-27-1
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Spat the Dummy
Fiction | Ed Macdonald
Fall 2010 | 272 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-31-8
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature
Non-Fiction | Trevor Carolan
Fall 2010 | 272 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-29-5
$20 CAN / $20 US
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A Room in the City
Art/Photography | Gabor Gasztonyi
September 2010 | 160 pp | 7 x 11
ISBN 978-1-897535-28-8
$40 CAN / $40 US
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The Devil You Know
Fiction | Jenn Farrell
Spring 2010 | 128 pp | 5.75 x 8
ISBN 9781897535066
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Wombat: The Collected Comic Strip
Art/Photography | Rod Filbrandt
Spring 2010 | 144 | 5.75 x 7.75
ISBN 9781897535301
$16.00 CAN / $16.00 US
Fiction
Animal
By Alexandra LeggatFinalist for the Trillium Book Award
In a style reminiscent of Raymond Carver, the stories contained in Animal depict people on the brink of major life change. They stand at crossroads they are often oblivious to; they suck thick air in rooms filled with palpable tension. Leggat’s characters often seem captured in a cinematic slo-mo, teetering on the edge of something unknown, heroically resisting the ever-present pull of Fate. It matters little whether the characters take action or refuse to act; life acts for them. The reader is left to wonder: When does “meaning” cease to have meaning? Like travelling a mountain highway at night, what’s just around the next bend is never known. The stories in Animal never fail to deliver potent surprises.
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“I’m tempted to say it’s a slim, distilled masterpiece.”
– Michael Bryson, Underground Book Club
“these quickly unfolding stories are elliptically drawn, tense with action and dark humour. Leggat is a shape-shifting writer”
– Ibi Kaslik, The Globe and Mail
“this immensely rewarding collection is worth picking up”
– eye weekly
5.5 x 8 | 160 pp
$18 CAN / $18 US
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