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  • Permanent Revolution

    Essays

    by Gail Scott, Margaret Christakos ...
    Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal"A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates."From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs. In conversation with other writers working in queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l'écriture ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heroine

    by Gail Scott ...
    In a bathtub in a rooming house in Montreal in 1980, a woman tries to imagine a new life for herself: a life after a passionate affair with a man while falling for a woman, a life that makes sense after her deep involvement in far left politics during the turbulent seventies of Quebec, a life whose form she knows can only be grasped as she speaks it. A new, revised edition of a seminal work of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Obituary

    by Gail Scott ...
    Shortlisted for the Grand Prix du livre de MontrealRosine is surrounded by ghosts. Ghosts of family. Ghosts of past lovers. Ghosts of an old Montreal and its politics. Ghosts of the Montreal quarry workers who, in the 1880s, frequented the Crystal Palace gardens, upon whose ruins her Mile-End triplex sits. Her dead maternal family is there, too, with their restlessness, their stories, their ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Biting the Error

    Writers Explore Narrative

    Edited by Gail Scott, Robert Gluck, Camille Roy ...
    What is the best way to tell a story? In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with language, storytelling and the world. The anthology includes renowned writers like Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Lydia Davis and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • My Paris

    by Gail Scott ...
    Series series Essentials
    Casting light and shadow, looking backwards and forwards, My Paris is a hypnotizing tale of desire and nostalgia, submerging the reader in the endless—but not always seamless—sensuality of the City of Light.A Canadian woman keeps an extraordinary journal of her time in a Parisian studio in this stunning autofiction. Not a typical tourist, she prefers indoor spaces, seeing Paris go by on TV or ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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  • Spare Parts Plus Two

    by Gail Scott ...
    A welfare cheque floats down the river, a cowboy spreads the Word of the Lord and crotches tick like clocks: the world of Spare Parts is unpredictable, evocative and vividly distorted. Its initial appearance, in 1981, caused a stir; at a time when linear narrative was the m.o. of feminist writing, Gail Scott had the nerve to fracture and dislocate her stories and her language.Spare Parts is as ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    A Novel

    by Heather O'Neill ...
    From the two-time Giller Prize shortlisted author, a dazzling circus of a novel set in the seductive underside of Montreal and New York between the warsTwo babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. One is a girl named Rose; the other, a boy named Pierrot. Each display rare gifts that bring them adoration and hatred. As they are made to travel around the city performing ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Arvida

    by Samuel Archibald ...
    Series Book 15 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Samuel Archibald is the hottest young writer in Quebec. In a region where short story collections might sell worse than anywhere else in North America, Arvida sold through 25,000 copies.Arvida fits in naturally with "country noir" authors like Donald Ray Pollock and Daniel Woodrell, but with a sharp and humorous French-Canadian twist.The collection explores topical subjects, including the collapse ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • When in French

    Love in a Second Language

    by Lauren Collins ...
    A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her relationship with Olivier continues to grow entirely ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Years

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Bright Dead Things

    Poems

    by Ada Limón ...
    The National Book Award finalist. " Limón's poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book." — The MillionsBright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours."A book of bravado ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suzanne

    by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette ...
    Translated by Rhonda Mullins ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR CBC CANADA READS 2019WINNER OF THE BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDEighty-five years of art and history through the eyes of a woman who fled her family – as re-imagined by her granddaughter.Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother’s mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a sometime painter and poet associated with Les Automatistes, a movement of dissident ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD