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Title: |
Reading by Lightning |
| Sub-title: |
The Reader's Guide Edition |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Joan Thomas Afterword by: Lisa Moore |
| ISBN10-13: |
0864926642 : 9780864926647 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
215x139x25mm |
| Pages: |
408 |
| Weight: |
.403 Kg. |
| Published: |
Goose Lane Editions - October 2011 |
| List Price: |
16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Sagas |
| For Lily Piper, life on the prairie is spare and austere. Nothing in her world responds to her hunger for life. When puberty hits, an abrupt shift in fate sends Lily to England, a place she thinks she may have invented. There at last, she experiences life in all its ambiguity, until she is called home to face a future she thought she had escaped. Reading by Lightning, Joan Thomas's long-awaited first novel, took readers by storm. A year after its publication, it had won numerous awards, found a large readership, and been selected by popular vote for On the Same Page, Manitoba's one book reading experience. |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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Amazon.ca First Novel Award
2008
Canada
Winner
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book
2009
Winner
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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2009
Ireland
Long-listed
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On the Same Page, Manitoba Reads
2009
Canada
Winner
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McNally Robinson Book of the Year
2009
Canada
Short-listed
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Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
2009
Canada
Short-listed
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Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
2009
Canada
Short-listed
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