Author: Edited by Rosemary Sullivan. Published by Oxford University Press, Don Mills, ON., 1999, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with beautiful fold-out-style French Covers. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 6 x 9 inch, 592 pages including Index.
THE OXFORD BOOK OF STORIES BY CANADIAN WOMEN, are stories collected that represent a cross-section of the best writing by women in the genre and demonstrate a wide range of styles from the realistic to the post-modern and experimental.
Over the past one hundred and fifty years, and most especially since the late 1960s, Canadian women have made a remarkable contribution to world literature. Carol Shields won the Pulitzer Prize; Margaret Atwood, Janette Turner Hospital, Anne Michaels, and Carol Shields were short listed for the Booker Award; Atwood and Michaels were nominated for the Orange. This anthology enocmpasses over a century and a half of writing by Canadian women. These are writers engaging with many different genres, including historical fiction, domestic drama and more abstract introspection. No reader will fail to be amused, enthralled, intrigued, or invigorated.
