Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1990
- Category
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771312288
- Publish Date
- Sep 1990
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919626478
- Publish Date
- Jan 1990
- List Price
- $14.00
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Alcuin Citation in 1991 for excellence in book design in Canada.
Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the happiness. Otherwise you could train for life, you could actually learn from grandmothers, mothers; poems -- those bodies of lines and spaces -- would not appear unbidden bearing news you hold your breath to hear. Helen Humphreys comes through the rich reproach of the past into the present, a bruise, a beautiful bloom.
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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