Stella Atlantis
- Publisher
- Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2020
- Category
- Literary, Jewish, Family Life, Magical Realism
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781928088967
- Publish Date
- Nov 2020
- List Price
- $22.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781928088974
- Publish Date
- Nov 2020
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
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.