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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Pictures

by (author) Lois Simmie

Publisher
Fifth House Books
Initial publish date
Jan 1999
Category
Short Stories (single author)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920079065
    Publish Date
    Jan 1999
    List Price
    $15.95

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Description

Pictures is Lois Simmie's second short story collection. A longing for tranquillity and a compassion for human beings - the impatient little girl, the anxious secretary, the desolate alcoholic - suffuse these stories.

With the same warmth and humour of her immensely popular novel, They Shouldn't Make You Promise That, Lois Simmie shows us Pictures that will make us laugh and make us cry, make us glad to be alive.

About the author

Lois Simmie is a true veteran of the Canadian writing scene, a storyteller of the highest order who is known and acclaimed for both her children's literature and her adult work. She's the author of the Canadian classic novel They Shouldn't Make You Promise That reissued by Coteau in the fall of 2002. Her short-fiction collections include Betty Lee Bonner Lives Here and Pictures, and she wrote the non-fiction book The Secret Lives of John Wilson. Her books for children include What Holds Up the Moon? and Mr. Got-to-Go and Arnie. She lives in Saskatoon.

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