Jolene Iolas, a student in upstate New York, encounters the work of Martin Sloane while visiting a Toronto gallery. She strikes up a correspondence with the older artist and eventually they become lovers. Then, without a word of warning, he vanishes, and Jolene loses everything to her grief.
9780099460268 | New edition (Gardners Books, May 1, 2003), cover price $14.35 | About this edition: Jolene Iolas, a student in upstate New York, encounters the work of Martin Sloane while visiting a Toronto gallery.
9780316739368 | Back Bay Books, June 19, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Follows the evolving relationship between Irish-born artist Martin Sloan and Jolene Iolas, a young American woman drawn first to his art and then to the man, from their initial meeting to his disappearance and her search for him.
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9780316069762 | Back Bay Books, February 28, 2009, cover price $9.99
A richly woven tapestry of temptation, desire, and betrayal is portrayed in ten stories filled with unforgettable characters who find themselves in difficult situations, from a business-trip affair that leaves a man humbled in ways he cannot fathom, to a teenager's shocking sexuality that destroys her family. 20,000 first printing.
9780316734998 | Little Brown & Co, March 1, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A richly woven tapestry of temptation, desire, and betrayal is portrayed in ten stories filled with unforgettable characters who find themselves in difficult situations, from a business-trip affair that leaves a man humbled in ways he cannot fathom, to a teenager's shocking sexuality that destroys her family.
9780385659468 | Doubleday of Canada, February 1, 2003, cover price $16.00
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9780316029001 | Little Brown & Co, September 3, 2007, cover price $10.99
With the help of her daughter's fiancé, widow Marianne Hollis sets out to make her husband's last dream a reality by uncovering a treasure trove of missing glass negatives that represent the earliest pictures ever taken of Toronto, in a novel that moves back and forth between the present and the past, into the life of the photographer who took the pictures more than a century and a half earlier.
9780316734981 | Little Brown & Co, January 10, 2007, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: With the help of her daughter's fiancé, widow Marianne Hollis sets out to make her husband's last dream a reality by uncovering a treasure trove of missing glass negatives that represent the earliest pictures ever taken of Toronto, in a novel that moves back and forth between the present and the past, into the life of the photographer who took the pictures more than a century and a half earlier.
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9780759516540 | Little Brown & Co, January 10, 2007, cover price $11.99
Product Description: This remarkable autobiographical play by the award-winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian-doll-like play: concentric stories enveloping each other. A writer is told, in confidence, a terrible tale of murder and injustice and he promises never to repeat the story...read more
9781552451632 | Coach House Books, October 25, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This remarkable autobiographical play by the award-winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian-doll-like play: concentric stories enveloping each other.
A short-story collection that explores the highways and byways of human relationships, marital and extramarital, parental and sibling. These stories offer an observation of the things that human beings can do to each other, the ways they can misunderstand each other and the pain they can cause each other.
9780099455097 | New edition (Gardners Books, January 6, 2005), cover price $12.55 | About this edition: A short-story collection that explores the highways and byways of human relationships, marital and extramarital, parental and sibling.
Product Description: This is the sixteenth edition of this nationally acclaimed anthology, which has established itself as Canada’s most popular fiction anthology, presenting the best new Canadian writers from coast to coast. As well as receiving high praise every year, it is an important indicator of up-and-coming writers...read more
9780771043932 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, September 28, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This is the sixteenth edition of this nationally acclaimed anthology, which has established itself as Canada’s most popular fiction anthology, presenting the best new Canadian writers from coast to coast.
Product Description: Hailed by Russell Banks as one of the best literary journals in the world, Brick focuses on literary nonfiction of various genres and subjects — the writing life, travel, film, memoir, interviews with authors and excerpts from their works...read more
9780968755532 | Brick, May 1, 2002, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Hailed by Russell Banks as one of the best literary journals in the world, Brick focuses on literary nonfiction of various genres and subjects — the writing life, travel, film, memoir, interviews with authors and excerpts from their works.
Product Description: Lake Nora Arms skillfully navigates the "blue hallways" of memory and longing, drawing on tastes and touches as if for the first time. It immerses and envelops us in a mythical place that readers have wanted to return to ever since the book was first published...read more
9780887846700 | House of Anansi Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Lake Nora Arms skillfully navigates the "blue hallways" of memory and longing, drawing on tastes and touches as if for the first time.
9780889104600 | Coach House Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Lake Nora Arms skillfully navigates the "blue hallways" of memory and longing, drawing on tastes and touches as if for the first time.
Product Description: Light-Crossing is an electric field of love and attraction, where invisible currents conjoin, cross, and charge the atmosphere with possibility and latent tension. Whether discussing the love between father and infant son, a man and the woman he spots from afar, or a husband and wife, the poems pulse with eroticism and the sweet accretions of memory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780887846571 | House of Anansi Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Light-Crossing is an electric field of love and attraction, where invisible currents conjoin, cross, and charge the atmosphere with possibility and latent tension.
Product Description: Building Jerusalemtakes place on New Year’s Eve, 1899, in the Grange, one of the grandest houses in Toronto. Now the home of the celebrated writer Goldwyn Smith, it is to be the scene of a New Year’s party for four auspicious guests...read more
9780887546105 | 1 edition (Playwrights Canada Pr, September 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Building Jerusalemtakes place on New Year’s Eve, 1899, in the Grange, one of the grandest houses in Toronto.
From the editors of Brick: A Literary Journal comes a collection of essays by seventy-four distinguished writers--including Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, and Bill Richardson--who offer personal reflections on some of their favorite overlooked, under-read, out of print, lost, or otherwise unavailable books. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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9780385720861 | Anchor Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Collects essays by known authors about books that influenced and inspired them but are now hard to find, no longer available, or under-appreciated.
The annual collection of essays, excerpts, and interviews includes work from Isabel Huggan, Alice Munro, Edmund White, Pico Iyer, Alice Walker,John Berger, and Barry Lopez, among other notable authors. Original.
9780968755501 | Brick, November 1, 2000, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The annual collection of essays, excerpts, and interviews includes work from Isabel Huggan, Alice Munro, Edmund White, Pico Iyer, Alice Walker,John Berger, and Barry Lopez, among other notable authors.
Product Description: Blues & True Concussions continues an Anansi tradition started by Dennis Lee more than thirty years ago. The title, taken from one of Lee's poems, captures the crazy joyful energy he has brought to all his endeavours, and these six new poets prove themselves similarly charged.
9780887845819 | House of Anansi Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Blues & True Concussions continues an Anansi tradition started by Dennis Lee more than thirty years ago.