Description: Winner of the Governor-General's Literary Award, Canada's most prestigious book award, The Roaring Girl is a radiant collection of stories that reminds us -- uproariousLy, spookily -- how susceptible are the most ordinary Lives to total upheaval. Hollingshead's landscape is that of suburbs; while the setting might be Vancouver, it could just as well be Cleveland, or Buffalo, or really anywhere. He writes of Love affairs gone awry, of the Lure of alcohol to lives with little emotional or financial future, of the trials of the teenage years. His characters are out of step, somehow, with the world, and in their attempts to connect with their peers and families, things only get worse. By turns funny and disturbing, but always compassionate and wise, these tales explode with lightning bolts of fiercely unexpected epiphanies.

Please Wait