At First I Hope For Rescue - Softcover

Rubinsky, Holley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0676971091 ISBN 13: 9780676971095

Publisher: Vintage Canada, 1998

Synopsis

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From the Journey Prize winner Holley Rubinsky comes a collection of linked stories that paints no-nonsense characters with a heartfelt hand. Rubinsky unearths the compulsions that rile ordinary lives, and the dreams and grave losses that haunt them. Set in the fictitious town of Ruth, BC, the cast of these wildly tragi-comic dramas disturb, shock, confound and impress. Some find their lives dusted with hope and redemption; others are not so easily saved.

About this title

About the Author

Holley Rubinsky is the acclaimed author of At First I Hope for Rescue and Rapid Transits and Other Stories. She has won the Journey Prize and the Canadian National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Fiction. Holley Rubinsky divides her time between British Columbia and Arizona.

From the Back Cover

"A remarkable novel by a huge and genuine talent. Holley Rubinsky has perfect pitch." - Ian Brown

"There is a vein of bravery and insight running through -- so rich that it infuses everything.... This is an author staring down the hardest things she knows ... and the results are incendiary." - The Globe and Mail

"Holley Rubinsky's voice is clear, her eyes and ears are carefully tuned, and she has something fresh and loving to say about the world that we live in daily.... Rubinsky's stories are restorative, in the best sense of that word, and renewing." - Russell Banks

"Books this good are rare. [These stories] combine the fine craftsmanship we expect from a Munro or Gallant with Rubinsky's own delightful idiosyncrasy." - The Edmonton Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0676971091
• ISBN 13: 9780676971095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256