13.
Series: reSet Series
Vital Signs: Collected Novellas
Paperback
John Metcalf
9781771960526
$24.95
FICTION
Sep 20, 2016
A reSet original. Vital Signs brings together the collected novellas by John Metcalf, a modern master of the form, a writer who Alice Munro has said "often comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer can get."Ranging from early words like "The Lady Who Sold Furniture," about an amoral housekeeper who fences the furniture of her employers, to "Forde Abroad," a mature piece that follows Metcalf's alter-ego, writer Robert Forde, as he stumbles through the Iron Curtain to attend a meeting of the Literary and Cultural Assoc...
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14.
Series: reSet Books
First Things First: Selected Stories
Paperback
Diane Schoemperlen
9781771960700
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 06, 2017
First Things First gathers 18 of the best of Diane Schoemperlen?s earliest and uncollected stories, with several being published in book form for the first time. Playfully inventive, comic, moving and profound, this collection will reinforce Schoemperlen?s importance as one of the leading short story writers of her generation.
15.
Series: reSet Books
I Don't Want to Know Anyone Too Well
Paperback
Norman Levine
9781771960885
$24.95
FICTION
Oct 17, 2017
Norman Levine's stories, so spare and compassionate and elegant and funny, so touching, sad, fantastic and unforgettable, rank alongside the best published in this country. Celebrated abroad, his work was largely unknown in Canada, except among the generations of writers he influenced, from André Alexis and Cynthia Flood to Lisa Moore and Michael Winter, who passed his work among themselves and learned much of their craft from studying Levine's own. His work long out of print, his entire output of short stories are collected here together for t...
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17.
Series:
Moody Food
Paperback
Ray Robertson
9781897231647
$19.95
FICTION
Sep 15, 2009
From critically acclaimed novelist Ray Robertson comes a rollicking Great Gatsby of the 60s—a sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll-suffused modern tragedy. For Bill Hansen, things couldn't be better. He's got a beautiful folk-singer girlfriend, a job at Toronto's coolest bookstore and, most of all, he's got Yorkville, which in 1966 is nothing short of paradise for a boy from the suburbs. And then Bill meets the charismatic Thomas Graham, who draws Bill into an obsessive quest to create what he calls "Interstellar North American Music" and the Duckhead S...
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18.
Series: ReSet
A Good Baby
Paperback
Leon Rooke
9781771961059
$19.95
FICTION
Jan 31, 2017
During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. The next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, Truman, with "teeth as rotten as his soul, " drives his battered car along the same paths. Though critically acclaimed when first published by Knopf in 1990, and widely considered among Rooke's best novels, A Good Baby has been unjustly forgotten. This beautiful new ReSet reissue brings attention to ...
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19.
Series: reSet Series
The Stand-In
Paperback
David Helwig
9781771962001
$16.95
FICTION
Jan 02, 2018
A retired academic is called to a remote university to speak as the replacement for an old friend recently deceased in unusual circumstances. The Stand-In is a transcript of these lectures, revealing a sophisticated tale of art, fame, and adultery that unfolds through rambling anecdotes and flashes of scholarly grandstanding. Fiercely funny and bitterly ironic, The Stand-In has been called the best academic doppelgänger story since Nabokov’s Pale Fire.
20.
Series: ReSet Books
The Iconoclast's Journal
Paperback
Terry Griggs
9781771962292
$19.95
FICTION
Jun 12, 2018
Spooked by some ball lightning on his wedding night, repressed young Catholic Griffith Smolders interprets this as a sign and abandons his conjugal responsibilities by escaping through the window, enduring a series of misadventures along the way involving, among others, con men, murderesses, shipwrecks, and autodidact biologist hermits. Giving chase, his betrothed, Avice Drinkwater, finally runs Grif aground in a tiny island community, and prepares to exact her revenge. Set in the rough-and-tumble late nineteenth century backwoods, The Iconocla...
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21.
Series: ReSet
Story of My Face, The
Paperback
Kathy Page
9781771962957
$21.95
FICTION
Aug 06, 2019
Natalie Baron is a neglected teenager adrift in the world when she attaches herself to Barbara Hern and her family, followers of Envallism, an extreme Protestant sect. Their new relationship fulfills unmet needs for both women—and leads to a devastating series of events that forever changes the course of their lives. Years later, Natalie, now a well-respected academic, travels to Finland in an attempt to understand the origins of Envallism as well as her own past. The Story of My Face is both a gripping psychological thriller and the archaeolog...
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22.
Series: reSet Series
Bad Imaginings
Paperback
Caroline Adderson
9781771961868
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 30, 2018
Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award for fiction and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Caroline Adderson's short fiction collection travels far and wide. From adolescent brothers marooned at an indifferent relatives cottage, to a Depression-era Ukrainian immigrant reading the drought-parched skies above Palliser's Triangle, to two friends trying to make sense of feminism in the eighties, Adderson captures her characters' cadences, conflicts, and consolations, their individual burdens and the m...
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23.
Series: reSet Series
Damages
Selected Stories 1982-2012
Paperback
Keath Fraser
9781771962933
$26.95
FICTION
Aug 03, 2021
“If you really want to journey into the heart of darkness, you'd be advised to travel with Vancouver writer Keath Fraser, a man of extraordinary talents.” —Bronwyn Drainie An icon of Canadian short fiction, Keath Fraser has exerted a wide and trenchant influence since the publication of his first collection Taking Cover in 1982. Damages: Selected Stories 1982–2012 gathers the finest of his work across decades. Combining the craftsmanship of the form’s greatest masters with the idiosyncratic voices and music of our contemporary moment, the stori...
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24.
Series:
You Are Here
Selected Stories
Paperback
Cynthia Flood
9781771963411
$24.95
FICTION
Oct 25, 2022
Gathering the best twenty stories from Cynthia Flood’s career, these spare, stylistically inventive stories explore subjects ranging from the domestic to the political. In this collection, Flood navigates a wide range of subject matter with a writing style which gradually becomes more intense, tighter, and sometimes experimental with each story. Most themes are familiar—love, hate, children, the natural world, parents, failure, despair, anger, regret. Other stories are more unusual, dealing with topics such as far-left political activity. Conta...
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