- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Canada (APB) (Sep 21 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140267018
- ISBN-13: 978-0140267013
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #486,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women brings together some of the world's most acclaimed writers as well as new voices in the world of Canadian short fiction. Edited and introduced by award-winning author Denise Chong, this rich and varied collection of thirty-two short stories covers vast social, cultural and emotional terrain while revealing the many common touchstones in the lives of contemporary women.
About the Author
Denise Chong is the author of the spellbinding memoir The Concubine’s Children: Portrait of a Family Divided, for which she was awarded the 1995 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, the 1994 City of Vancouver Book Prize, and the Van City Book Prize; it was also shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. The Concubine’s Children has been a national bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, with the paperback edition on The Globe and Mail's bestseller list for over 87 weeks. Denise Chong has written for magazines such as Saturday Night and Canadian Business, is a contributor to Many Mouthed Birds, an anthology of contemporary Chinese Canadian writers, and edited The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women. She lives in Ottawa.
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