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Slow Emergencies

by (author) Nancy Huston

Publisher
McArthur & Company
Initial publish date
Oct 1996
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552780411
    Publish Date
    Oct 1996
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Slow Emergencies conveys an irresistible impulse tocreate, and illustrates the emotional turmoil that ensues for Lin andher family. Nancy Huston, award-winning author of The Mark of the Angel,writes brilliantly here about the passage of time, the body’svulnerability, and the solitude of creative endeavor. What results is adeeply felt novel that offers a disquieting but profoundly movingmeditation on just what it means to be an artist.

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About the author

Nancy Huston’s books have won the Prix Goncourt des Lyceéns, the Prix Elle (Quebec) and the Governor General’s Award. Her novel, The Mark of the Angel, was an international bestseller, which won the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle, the Canadian Jewish Fiction Book Award, the Torgi Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Fault Lines won the Prix Femina in 2006. Nancy Huston lives in Paris with her husband, the writer Tzvetan Todorov, and their two children.

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