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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

The Heaviest Dress

by (author) Mireille Silcoff

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Dec 2014
Category
Short Stories (single author)
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770899407
    Publish Date
    Dec 2014
    List Price
    $1.99

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Description

After the death of a favourite aunt with a decadent and intriguing past, a young woman travels back to Montreal for the funeral and reconsiders her own deteriorating life as a failing fashion school student in New York City.

About the author

Mireille Silcoff is the founding editor of Guilt & Pleasure Quarterly, a magazine of new Jewish writing and ideas, and is the author of three books about drug and youth culture. She is a lead columnist with Canada's National Post and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazineand other publications. She lives in Montreal, and in addition to completing this collection she is working on a memoir about her rare chronic illness.

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