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Fiction Literary

Stella Atlantis

by (author) Susan Perly

Publisher
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd
Initial publish date
Nov 2020
Category
Literary, Jewish, Family Life, Magical Realism
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781928088967
    Publish Date
    Nov 2020
    List Price
    $22.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781928088974
    Publish Date
    Nov 2020
    List Price
    $9.99

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When novelist Johnny Coma's daughter comes back from the dead as a talking octopus, will he be finally be able to write her story? Will his estranged wife, renowned war photographer Vivienne Pink, believe him?

About the author

Susan Perly has worked as a radio producer at CBC. In the early `80s her Letters from Latin America for Peter Gzowski?s ?Morningside? reported from locales such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Chiapas. During the Iran-Iraq war she broadcast Letters from Baghdad. She also produced many documentaries for ?Sunday Morning? during that time.

Perly?s short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and in the anthology Hard Times. ?Jesus and the Toucan? won second prize in the CBC Literary Competition in 1988 and was dramatized with Don Francks. It was her story, ?1956: an excerpt? (about Thelonious Monk and Glenn Gould), which led to the use of jazz as both subject and model in her writing. She has performed parts of Love Street with jazz musicians in Toronto.

Susan Perly lives in Toronto with her husband, the poet Dennis Lee.

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