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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Missing Persons

by (author) Jan Thornhill

Publisher
Cormorant Books
Initial publish date
Oct 1994
Category
Short Stories (single author)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920953631
    Publish Date
    Oct 1994
    List Price
    $12.95

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Description

In her first collection of short fiction, Giangrande explores the lives of people who inhabit the broken terrain of the late twentieth century. A man saves memory from the blur of media events by finding a tool more potent than television. . . an Ontario farmer reaps a strange harvest in the garden of a Lebanese exile. . . a photographer uses her creative eye to unravel the mystery of missing friend. . . an antiwar march pushes a woman into the life of her beloved twin destroyed by Vietnam. . . . Faced with the disappearance of homeland, memory and innocence, these short stories powerfully explore interpretative material for lifes dance.

About the author

Jan Thornhill is an author, illustrator and designer who brings her fascination with the natural world to her books for children. They include I Found a Dead Bird (National Parenting Publications Gold Award, Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award); The Wildlife 123 (UNICEF-Ezra Jack Keats International Award for Excellence in Children’s Book Illustration, Governor General’s Award finalist); and The Wildlife ABC (Governor General’s Award finalist). Jan recently won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People. She spends her spare time in the woods obsessively collecting and cataloguing wild mushrooms and slime molds.

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