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Poetry Canadian

Gods and Other Mortals

by (author) Helen Humphreys

Publisher
Brick Books
Initial publish date
Jan 1986
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919626294
    Publish Date
    Jan 1986
    List Price
    $8.50

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Description

Precisely etched meditations on public and private experience, charged landscapes and reconceived Greek myths. "Words are signals, flares sent up in desperation, a cryptic language of longing." - Leslie McAllister, Toronto Star

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.

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