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  • Fishing With Tardelli

    A Memoir of Family in Time Lost

    by Neil Besner ...
    A literary meditation on memory, time, love, and lossFishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents — mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion — and the author. Over marriages and remarriages, fathers and mothers become stepfathers and stepmothers, and brothers gain and lose stepbrothers and half-brothers, sisters and half-sisters across two continents. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Montreal Standard Time: The Early Journalism of Mavis Gallant

    Montreal Standard Time is drawn from Mavis Gallant’s columns in The Montreal Standard during her six-year tenure at the newspaper, beginning in 1944, when she was 22. Gallant reported on an extraordinary range of subjects: labour issues, mining, existentialism, immigration, comedy, mercy killings, feminism, and suffrage. Her journalism is peopled by a rich cast of characters: writers, painters, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Black Beans and Diamonds

    Brazil in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop

    Translated by Neil K. Besner ...
    Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien’s Black Beans and Diamonds has become a foundational study of the critical and highly productive years from 1951 to 1974 during which the American poet Elizabeth Bishop lived and worked in Brazil.Now available in English for the first time, the book provides Bishop scholars and her steadily growing audience of general readers a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Fishing With Tardelli

    A Memoir of Family in Time Lost

    by Neil Besner ...
    Narrated by Neil Besner ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 55 min

    A literary meditation on memory, time, love, and lossFishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents — mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion — and the author. Over marriages and remarriages, fathers and mothers become stepfathers and stepmothers, and brothers gain and lose stepbrothers and half-brothers, sisters and half-sisters across two continents. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Say Her Name

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    The Pulitzer Prize–finalist's intimate autobiographical novel of a marriage cut tragically short is "a beautiful love story, and an extraordinary story of loss" (Colm Tóibín).In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married Aura Estrada. The two were deeply in love, and Aura was a gifted young writer on the cusp of her own brilliant career. But while on vacation only a month before their ... Read more

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    Translated by Chris Andrews ...
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  • Only to Sleep

    A Philip Marlowe Novel

    Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature’s most enduring detectives back to life—as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND NPR • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AND SHAMUS AWARDSThe year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe—now in his seventy-second year—is living out his ... Read more

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  • Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language. As García Márquez's ... Read more

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    Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there is a flourishing literature in Catalan, Galician, and Basque as well as in Castilian-the language that has became known as 'Spanish ... Read more

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  • Madrid Again

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    A modern-day bildungsroman, featuring a young woman on a quest to discover her family history as she is torn between the US and Spain, the old world and the new.Told with humor, candor, and grit, Madrid Again is a highly original novel, and an homage to the haunting power of history, and how it shapes the identity of two generations of women.Madrid, 1960s. Odilia is a brilliant young student who ... Read more

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  • Colonial Latin American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rolena Adorno ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the ... Read more

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