Strange & Familiar Places - Softcover

Radu, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550651188 ISBN 13: 9781550651188

Publisher: Véhicule Press, 1999

Synopsis

Strange and Familiar Places is a passionate and gripping novel of ideas and sex, music and art, of creative play and psychopathology. It is centered on an independent-minded woman who rejects the religious and moral pieties of the day. Sometimes at the edge, at other times in the centre of the bilingual community and world she inhabits, she plays dangerously with temptation and seduction. She risks her marriage to a minister whose beliefs she does not share-alienating her daughter, and salvaging her damaged heart.

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About the Author

Kenneth Radu's first collection of short stories, The Cost of Living, was short-listed for the 1988 Governor General's Award for Fiction. His first novel, Distant Relations, won the 1989 QSPELL Fiction Prize and was short-listed for the Books in Canada/W.H. Smith First Novel Award. The short story collection, A Private Performance, which the Toronto Star called "a collection of sparkling gems" won the 1991 QSPELL Fiction Prize. His second novel, Home Fires, was published in 1992. Kenneth Radu lives in St-Polycarpe, Quebec.

About this edition

• Publisher: Véhicule Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1550651188
• ISBN 13: 9781550651188
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224