Strange Heaven

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Author:

Coady, Lynn

Afterword by:

Endicott, Marina

ISBN:

978-0-86492-617-3

Publication Date:

May 2010

Publisher:

Goose Lane Editions

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $17.99

Book Description:

Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Thomas Head Raddall Award Shortlisted, Governor General's Award for Fiction

She's depressed, they say. Apathetic. Bridget Murphy, almost eighteen, has had it with her zany family. When she is transferred to the psych ward after giving birth and putting her baby up for adoption, it is a welcome relief -- even with the manic ranting of a...
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Book Details

Pages:	216
Detailed Subjects:	Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.5 x 8.47 x 0.48 Inches
Book Weight:	0.572 Pounds

Author Biography

Coady, Lynn (Author)

Lynn Coady was born in Cape Breton. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. She has edited an anthology of new writing from Canada's east coast called 'Victory Meat,' and a novel called 'Mean Boy' has been sold to Doubleday Canada. She writes for newspapers and magazines from time to time as well.

Her title, Strange Heaven has won the Dartmouth Book Award in 1999, the Atlantic Bookseller's Choice Award in 1999, the Air Canada/Canadian Author's Association Award for Most Promising Writer Under Thirty in 1998, and was shortlisted for the Governer-General's Award for Fiction in 1998. Her title, Play the Monster Blind, won the Canadian Author's Association's Jubilee Award for a short fiction collection in 2001, was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 2000, was shortlisted again for the CNIB Award, and The Writer's Trust Award in 2001.

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