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Pearl

by (author) Nancy Jo Cullen

Publisher
Frontenac House Ltd.
Initial publish date
Apr 2006
Category
Canadian, Women Authors, LGBT
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897181034
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $15.95

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Description

Pearl is a poetic exploration of the life of the legendary Pearl Miller, early Calgary’s most famous, and successful madam. Cullen fuses traditional lyric lines and experimental uses of form and language to fabricate a biography of Calgary’s mythical brothel keeper.

About the author

Nancy Jo Cullen’s poetry and fiction have appeared in The PuritanGrainfilling StationPlenitude, Prairie Fire, Arc, This Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2018, Room, Journey Prize and Best Canadian Fiction 2012. Nancy is the 2010 recipient for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ+ Emerging Writers. She’s published three collections of poetry with Frontenac House and a collection of short stories, Canary, with Biblioasis. Her first novel, The Western Alienation Merit Badge, was shortlisted for the 2020 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

 

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Awards

  • Winner, Alberta Book Awards Trade Fiction Book Award
  • Short-listed, The City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize