The House Weighs Heavy
- Publisher
- Thistledown Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2008
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920633953
- Publish Date
- Apr 2008
- List Price
- $7.50
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Description
Winner of the 1994 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Award. "This is a book showing tremendous awareness of language and an acute interest in character and situation." Canadian Book Review Annual.
About the author
Because her parents “made it to a hospital on time,” Paulette Dubé was born in Westlock, Alberta. Growing up in the French village of Legal, she watched her third sister being born on the kitchen table and was hooked on “magic,” as her dad called it. Today, she relies heavily on the good fortune of living in Jasper National Park with her family for her daily dose of magic realism. Talon, her first novel, made the shortlists for the 1999 Canadian Literary Awards, the Alberta Writers’ Guild Best Novel Award (2003) and the Starburst Award (2003). Her poetry garnered a number of rewards including the Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Award (1994), the CBC Alberta Anthology (1998) and the CBC Literary Awards (2005). Her most recent book is the poetry collection, Gaits (Thistledown, 2010).