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Title: |
The Running Trees |
| Sub-title: |
Stories |
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| By (author): |
Amber McMillan |
| ISBN10-13: |
1773101692 : 9781773101699 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
203x127x14mm |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Weight: |
.256 Kg. |
| Published: |
Goose Lane Editions - September 2021 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Short stories |
| Finalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction) Finalist, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads readers into a series of conversations â through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation â to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.The relationship between two siblings disintegrates after one asks the other for the pen; a professor and his former student get drinks years after a "romantic" encounter; a book club meets only to find that they have wildly different opinions about a new memoir about their town; and a long-haired feline contemplates existence and consciousness while his cohabitant licks his own butthole.Whimsical, unconventional, humorous, and always pitch-perfect, The Running Trees explores how we desperately try to communicate with each other amid the gaps in meaning we create. |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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On CBC Books' list of 65 Canadian works of fiction to watch for in fall 2021
2021
Canada
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New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction)
2022
Canada
Short-listed
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Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
2022
Canada
Short-listed
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