Lee Kvern
Auteur de The Matter of Sylvie
Œuvres de Lee Kvern
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Lieux de résidence
- Okotoks, Alberta, Canada
- Prix et distinctions
- Winner of CBC Literary Award (2010)
Nominated for Alberta Literary Award (2010)
Finalist for Malahat Open Season Award (2010)
Winner of CBC Literary Award (2007)
Winner of CBC Alberta Anthology (2007)
Winner of CBC Alberta Anthology (2006) (tout afficher 8)
Finalist for Alberta Book Awards (2006)
Finalist for CBC Literary Award (1989(
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 14
- Popularité
- #739,559
- Évaluation
- 4.7
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 6
Immovable: There are times when I felt like I was trying to push against a brick wall while reading the stories. These are stories than demand attention to every single word. They don't bend or give the reader any coddling. These are not stories to be read lightly while relaxing on a beach. These stories, in a sense, are a bit of work.
Brave: For all their refusal to give, these are brave stories. They are about as far away from "mass commercial fiction" as you can go. This is pure literary fiction. Uncompromising. One gets the sense that Kvern wrote the stories she wanted, readers be damned. Because of this, the stories work. They mightn't have, but they do.
** I was given a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a review. However, it was a book on my TBR pile, so I probably would have read it anyway. **… (plus d'informations)