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A young boy's life is changed forever after his parents take into their home a tough, adolescent drifter, in the title story from an award-winning collection of short fiction by a distinguished Canadian author. 40,000 first printing.
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Erudite yet immediate, the dozen stories that make up this collection from Canadian writer Greg Hollingshead are set in the familiar urban and suburban worlds of everyday life. With a deceptively simple prose, a sharp ear for dialogue and the telling moments of existence, and a skewed sense of humor, Hollingshead peels back the surface to reveal the psychological terrors and injuries that inform his characters. The Roaring Girl, the author's first book to be published in the United States, was a bestseller in Canada, where it won the prestigious Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in 1995, putting him in the company of Canadian writers such as Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood.
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Greg Hollingshead teaches at the University of Alberta.
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- PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0399142223
- ISBN 13 9780399142222
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages196
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