Hellgoing : stories
A collection of short fiction. Equally adept at capturing the obsessions of both men and women.
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- ISBN: 1770893083
- ISBN: 9781770893085
- Physical Description 223 pages
- Publisher Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Winner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize |
Formatted Contents Note: | Wireless -- Hellgoing -- Dogs in clothes -- Take this and eat it -- An otherworld -- Clear skies -- The natural elements -- Body condom -- Mr. Hope. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 19.95 |
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Summary
Hellgoing
With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives us eight unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last. A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can't seem to stop bashing herself up in the light of day. Equally adept at capturing the foibles and obsessions of men and of women, compassionate in her humour yet never missing an opportunity to make her characters squirm, fascinated as much by faithlessness as by faith, Lynn Coady is quite possibly the writer who best captures what it is to be human at this particular moment in our history.