God and Other Mortals
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Jun 1986
- Category
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771311960
- Publish Date
- Jun 1986
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
Precisely etched meditations on public and private experience, charged landscapes and reconceived Greek myths.
About the author
HELEN HUMPHREYS’ last novel, The Reinvention Of Love, was a national bestseller. Coventry was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Humphreys won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize for Afterimage and the Toronto Book Award for Leaving Earth. Her much-loved novel The Lost Garden was a Canada Reads selection. The recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence, Humphreys lives in Kingston, Ontario.
WEB: HHUMPHREYS.COM
FACEBOOK: HELEN HUMPHREYS
Editorial Reviews
Humphreys’ use of language is very skillful. Some poems cover us in an avalanche of paradoxes that illumine the underlying mystery. Sometimes we are ambushed by sudden juxtapositions of words and phrases. Always we are following a map we must decode the buried treasure.
Canadian Book Review Annual
Words are signals, flares sent up in desperation, a cryptic language of longing.
Toronto Star