Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Sharp Corner
- Publisher
- Thomas Allen Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2012
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771021760
- Publish Date
- Jun 2012
- List Price
- $1.99
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Description
A homeowner witnesses three separate, brutal car crashes on his front lawn, and doesn’t want to admit that a part of him craves the rush each brings.
About the author
Russell Wangersky’s most recent book, The Glass Harmonica, won the 2010 BMOWinterset Award and was longlisted for the Relit Awards. His previous book, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself won Canada’s largest non-fiction prize, the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Rogers Communications Newfoundland and Labrador Non-Fiction Book Award and the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. It was also a finalist for theWriter’s Trust Non- Fiction Prize and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 selection in 2008. His 2006 short story collection The Hour of Bad Decisions was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the CommonwealthWriter’s Prize, first book, Canada and the Caribbean. It was a Globe and Mail Top100 selection in 2006.Wangersky lives and works in St. John’s, where he is an editor and columnist with the St. John’s Telegram.
