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`Early that summer, my grandma dropped dead watching The Price is Right, and the following week Aunt Lois, my mother's sister, moved in and declared we would no longer be running a breeding factory.'
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`Vivette J. Kady grew up overseas, in South Africa. It is partly this that gives her such a keen perspective on human location and dislocation. Her characters, who range from teenage mothers to elderly dowsers, live dangerous and troubled lives, marked by miscommunication and pain, but also by intangible moments of joy. Indeed, it is perhaps these strange joys that are most vivid in her stories. ``Lightning isn't just one single stroke that falls to the earth,'' says one of her characters. ``It moves so quickly, we can't see it's actually rising, not falling.'' It is this rise in the midst of apparent fall that courses through Kady's work.'
(Maggie Helwig Coming Attractions: 2000)Vivette J. Kady grew up in South Africa where she studied architecture before immigrating to Canada and starting to write. She now lives in Toronto. Her fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in Canada and the United States, including The Journey Prize Anthology, Coming Attractions and Best Canadian Stories, and has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, a National Magazine Award, and a Western Magazine Award.
Vivette J. Kady is a seeing-eye human to a blind dog. She has climbed to the top of the highest dune in the Namib desert, and she used to be a go-go dancer, in South Africa.
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- PublisherPorcupine's Quill
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0889842590
- ISBN 13 9780889842595
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Original printed wraps. 160 pp. Octavo. The thirteen stories in Vivette J. Kady's Most Wanted drop us into domestic landscapes we think we know -- until we are greeted by a cross-dressing pigeon-fancier, a phone-sex worker and a three-legged dog named Duane. Most Wanted begins with loss, ends with solace, and strange things happen in between: steak knives become darts, a mouse suffers an agonizing death, an inner incubus is embraced, and lightning strikes with amazing results. Kady writes with the discipline of a master-builder, but her brilliance comes from the manner in which her characters transcend fractured relationships, confinement and longing, and move out into the world whole and dignified. In strong, brave prose, Kady is a compassionate observer of the bittersweet in life. Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures, with hand-tipped endleaves, front and back. Seller Inventory # 9780889842595
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