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For Goose Lane's diamond anniversary -- an array of six scintillating stories, gems mined from sixty years of Canada's finest publishing and polished to the brightest hues. This multi-volume collection includes the following:
Famed poet Alden Nowlan's
A Boy's Life of Napoleon, adapted from his first novel,
The Wanton Troopers, posthumously published by Goose Lane in 1988
Douglas Glover's strange and affecting
Woman Gored by Bison Lives The Three Marys, a Christmas story with a bite, adapted by Lynn Coady from her debut novel,
Strange Heaven Simran, a twisting tour-de-force by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's stunning
What Had Become of Us Knife Party, a wild tale of an Italian vacation gone off the rails, from Mark Anthony Jarman's highly anticipated new collection, forthcoming in 2015
About the author
Born in Hants Co., Nova Scotia, in 1933, Alden Nowlan moved to Hartland, New Brunswick, when he was nineteen, and worked on the
Hartland Observer as reporter, editor, and general facilitator until he went to Saint John (and the
Telegraph Journal) in 1963. In 1968 he was invited to take up the position of Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Alden Nowlan died on June 27th, 1983.
Summary
Published for Goose Lane's diamond anniversary.
