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Title: |
Strange Heaven |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Lynn Coady Afterword by: Marina Endicott |
| ISBN10-13: |
0864926170 : 9780864926173 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
215x139x12mm |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Weight: |
.259 Kg. |
| Published: |
Goose Lane Editions - May 2010 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| She's depressed, they say. Apathetic. Bridget Murphy, almost eighteen, has had it with her zany family. When she is transferred to the children's hospital's psych ward after giving birth to a baby and putting it up for adoption, it is a welcome relief â even with the manic ranting of a teen stripper and lurid come-ons of a young megalomaniac. But this oasis of relative calm is short-lived. Christmas is coming, and Uncle Albert arrives to whisk Bridget back to the bedlam of home and the booze-soaked social life that got her into trouble in the first place. Her grandmother raves from her bed, banging the wall with a bedpan through a litany of profanities. Her father curses while her mother tries to keep the lid on developmentally delayed Uncle Rollie. The baby's father wants retribution, and her friends don't get that she's changed. |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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Thomas Head Raddall Award
1998
Canada
Winner
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Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award
1998
Canada
Winner
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Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)
1998
Canada
Winner
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Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award
1998
Canada
Winner
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Governor General's Award for Fiction
1998
Canada
Short-listed
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