Latakia
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1979
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889221673
- Publish Date
- Jan 1979
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
A brilliant and intense journey through a relationship, and through language and myth—as well as a literary journey spanning three continents.
About the author
Audrey Thomas was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1953, and has lived in Canada since 1959. She divides her time between Galiano Island in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia and Victoria. She has published more than a dozen works of fiction. Her novels include Mrs. Blood (1970), Latakia (1979), Intertidal Life (1984), and Isobel Gunn (1999). " Natural History," a prize winner in the 1980 CBC Canadian Literary Awards, was published in her collection Real Mothers (1981).
Editorial Reviews
“An evocative fictional voice that is one of the most powerful in Canadian fiction.”
— Vancouver Sun