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GREG
HOLLINGSHEAD
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
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“NOTHING NORMAL HERE —
—Lee Henderson
...twelve stunning new stories by the great Greg Hollingshead that will knock you upside the heart and break your head — flush with dizzyingly brilliant insights into the contemporary dilemma, every line is cast in existential magic. Here’s a fully-dilated peek into the secret lives of men and women on the brink.”
“THE STORIES OF GREG HOLLINGSHEAD
...are utterly unique, utterly strange, and utterly exhilarating in their offbeat, offhand brilliance. There is no writer like him in Canada.”
—Lynn Coady
ACT NORMAL,
...a collection of twelve stories, appeared on the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Greg Hollingshead’s award-winning collection The Roaring Girl. These are contemporary stories about people doing their best to connect in a mad world.
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“BEDLAM IS A TOUGH,
—Michael Crummey
...textured book, vibrant and complex and compelling.... Greg Hollingshead creates a remarkably detailed picture of the social and political worlds of the 18th century that raises intensely important questions about our own.”
“AN IMAGINATIVE TOUR DE FORCE.
...Bedlam has the slippery lucidity of its subject: knowing madness in a world gone mad.”
—Elizabeth Hay
THIS EXTRAORDINARY NOVEL
...tells a dramatic and compelling story of three people caught up in the turmoil of the late eighteenth century, their lives inexorably intertwined in a time of war and revolution.
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“HOLLINGSHEAD CHALLENGES
—The Calgary Herald
...literary conventions with confidence and dignity.... [He] has the capacity — and this is his art — to cause us to see ourselves, to recognize the ‘darkness’ that can exist not only in the world around us, but in our own lives.”
“A POWERFUL NOVEL.
There’s an electricity in the writing that can seem to affect you muscularly. It’s about healing, but it also plumbs other depths — savagery, how children survive childhood, marriage, and the land. It powers along on good old-fashioned suspense — that’s the cause of the knotting you feel in your stomach.”
—Stephen Smith, Quill & Quire
A GRIEVING JOURNALIST
...arrives in a small mining town on the Canadian Shield to write a magazine article about a reputed healer, shattering a fragile state of tension between her and her parents.
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“HERE ARE TINY, FIERY WORLDS
—Julie Myerson, the Mail on Sunday
...that make you roar with laughter in the first paragraph, cry in the last. A magical, unmissable, crazily perfect book.”
“HOLLINGSHEAD HAS A WAY
...of making the ordinary buckle and twist into something quite bizarre....”
—The Observer
THE FOCUS OF THIS COLLECTION
...is the strangeness and improbability of our relationships, their potent effects upon us, the strange and improbable ways we seek to be free and to be bound, and the stranger and more improbable ways we succeed at both.
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