HOME SCHOOLING, Short Stories by Carol Windley (2006 SIGNED)

Author: Carol Windley. Published by Cormorant Books, 2006, 1st Edition. (This is a 2nd Edition 2006) SIGNED and Dedicated by the Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 219  pages.

HOME SCHOOLING, is a collection of short stories by Carol Windley that are set on the West Coast (mainly on Vancouver Island, where Windley lives), the eight stories in this collection are confident and unsettling. 

Windley seamlessly juxtaposes disparate elements – remembered phrases, telling verbal exchanges and incidents – to move her plots hypnotically forward. Invariably they have at their heart some terrible, life-altering event: the sudden death of a child, the loss of a spouse, the defection of a parent. In “What Saffi Knows,” a woman recalls the unsolved disappearances of two boys when she was a very young child, and reveals what she has lived with all her life, the knowledge that the killer lived next door. The lessons in Home Schooling are often hard ones, but the stories are not grim or angst-ridden. Instead, they are taut, wry, and wise, and never without a little hope.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Until her nomination for this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize, Carol Windley was perennially under-known, though her stories have appeared in the Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories, and her first collection, Visible Light, was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award in 1993. With Home Schooling, she has been discovered yet again, and this time it’s going to stick.

1st Edition & Signed by Author  

ISBN: 9781897151037  

GC&C Stock #3936