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Swimming from the Flames

By (author): Pauline Holdstock

From “Sitting Pretty’s” single, delicious moment frozen in time to “Turn of the Year’s” eerie landscape of loss, internationally acclaimed author Pauline Holdstock’s stories explore a reality once removed from our own; a place where her characters’ inner lives fuse with the weird and wonderful world at large.

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Pauline Holdstock

Pauline Holdstock was born in England and moved to Vancouver in 1974. She now lives on Vancouver Island, and is the author of many short stories, essays and anthologies. She was selected as a finalist for the Books In Canada First Novel Award in 1988 for The Blackbird’s Song and in 2002 was awarded first place for fiction by the Federation of BC Writers. Her sixth novel, Beyond Measure, was shortlisted for the 2004 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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From “Sitting Pretty’s” single, delicious moment frozen in time to “Turn of the Year’s” eerie landscape of loss, internationally acclaimed author Pauline Holdstock’s stories explore a reality once removed from our own; a place where her characters’ inner lives fuse with the weird and wonderful world at large.

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Dimensions:

127 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

January 16, 1995

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Turnstone Press

ISBN:

9780888011824

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Short Stories

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Language:

eng

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