Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
The Heaviest Dress
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2014
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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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.