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Zusatztext 68436081 Informationen zum Autor BILLIE LIVINGSTON is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Going Down Swinging , Cease to Blush , and One Good Hustle , which was longlisted for the Giller Prize, nominated for the Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book Award, and named a best book of the year by The Globe and Mail. She is also the author of Greedy Little Eyes , a short story collection that won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the CBC's Bookie Award; The Crooked Heart of Mercy , a novel; and The Chick at the Back of the Church , a poetry collection for which Livinston won the Pat Lowther award. Her short story, "Sitting on the Edge of Marlene," has been adapted as a feature film. In 2017, Livingston received the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award "in recognition of a remarkable body of work, and in anticipation of future contributions to Canadian literature." Zusammenfassung In Greedy Little Eyes , award-winning writer Billie Livingston explores the universal craving for connection, both emotional and physical. A young misfit is assaulted by a delusional homeless man and subsequently finds herself caught in the middle of two bullying cops who invite her to hit back; an impulsive and restless mother hungers for independence but wants company along the way; a middle-aged man who yearns for a life off the grid rejects his family and heads into the woods with a young bohemian while he slowly loses his mind; a journalist questions her scruples and complicity after she is invited to visit a friend in New York who is in the midst of an affair with a married man. Fiercely independent, yet struggling to fit in, isolated but exploding with love and longing, Livingston's characters whisper and roar as they wrestle with the notion of "normal." Inhaltsverzeichnis Before I Would Ever Hurt You Make Yourself Feel Better Candy From a Stranger’s Mouth You’re Taking All the Fun Out of It Clown Lessons Did You Grow Up With Money? Do Not Touch Greedy Little Eyes You Sound Tiny Georgia! It’s Me Acknowledgements Publication History ...
