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Hugh Garner's Best Stories (Canadian Literature Collection)

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Description for Hugh Garner's Best Stories (Canadian Literature Collection) Paperback. Hugh Garner's Governor General Award-winning Best Stories depicts working-class life in North America and Europe between the Great Depression and the Quiet Revolution, emphasizing the Spanish Civil War's integral role in Canadian and transnational identity formation. Editor(s): Robins Sharpe, Emily. Series: Canadian Literature Collection. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 378.
Hugh Garner's Best Stories received the Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the Great Depression to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, and second-wave feminism. Garner takes on issues ranging from anglophone-francophone conflict in Canada to racism in the American South, from the disenfranchisement of First Nations people to the mistreatment of the mentally disabled. Best Stories is not only notable for the devastating precision of its prose, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Canadian Literature Collection
Condition
New
Weight
377g
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Ottawa, Canada
ISBN
9780776622613
SKU
V9780776622613
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99-15

About Hugh Garner
Hugh Garner (1913-1979) was a Governor General Award-winning Canadian author. Before working as a journalist, editor, and fiction writer, Garner travelled to Spain to volunteer with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and then enlisted in World War II. Best known for the novel Cabbagetown, he also published over a dozen books, a trilogy of plays, and hundreds ... Read more

Reviews for Hugh Garner's Best Stories (Canadian Literature Collection)
Sharpe's edition provides a tidy, if implicit, parallel to Garner's collection. Sharpe's edition fits into broader digital and print publications, draws together multiple critical contexts, and features a writer whose work appeared primarily in Canadian venues. Thanks to Sharpe's editorial treatment, Garner's "multimedia production" across print, film, and radio spans outwards from the print instance of the stories; the multiplicity ... Read more

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