Echolocation
Karen Hofmann
Disponibilité:
Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.
Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.
Éditeur:
NeWest Press
NeWest Press
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2019
2019
ISBN-13:
9781988732572
Description:
<p><b>Winner of Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!<br>Third Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!<br>All Lit Up Book Club Selection!</b></p><p>In this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuous imagery, Hofmann considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed couple who transform into feral beasts during the hardships of a remote research expedition; backbiting faculty members who strip down during a post-conference BBQ; an heretical nun who explores the possibility of a new life by imaginatively excavating the fossils of BC's Burgess Shale; and an ambitious bylaw officer determined to make her mark on the city's streets.</p><p>In <i>Echolocation</i>, Karen Hofmann has found new ways to sound the depths of the human heart.</p> <p><b>Winner of Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!<br>Third Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!<br>All Lit Up Book Club Selection!</b></p><p>In this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuous imagery, Hofmann considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed couple who transform into feral beasts during the hardships of a remote research expedition; backbiting faculty members who strip down during a post-conference BBQ; an heretical nun who explores the possibility of a new life by imaginatively excavating the fossils of BC's Burgess Shale; and an ambitious bylaw officer determined to make her mark on the city's streets.</p><p>In <i>Echolocation</i>, Karen Hofmann has found new ways to sound the depths of the human heart.</p>