Lauren B. Davis
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Location: Princeton, New Jersey
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Lauren B. Davis's new novel, OUR DAILY BREAD has been named "One of the Best of the Year" by The Boston Globe and The Globe & Mail. She is also the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, The Radiant City, (HarperCollins Canada 2005) a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize; The Stubborn Season (Harper Collins Canada, 2002), chosen for the Robert Adams Lecture Seri… Read moreLauren B. Davis's new novel, OUR DAILY BREAD has been named "One of the Best of the Year" by The Boston Globe and The Globe & Mail. She is also the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, The Radiant City, (HarperCollins Canada 2005) a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize; The Stubborn Season (Harper Collins Canada, 2002), chosen for the Robert Adams Lecture Series; as well as two collections of critically acclaimed short stories, An Unrehearsed Desire (Exile Editions 2008), and Rat Medicine & Other Unlikely Curatives (Mosaic Press, 2000). Her short fiction has also been nominated for the CBC Literary Awards. Lauren, who was born in Montreal, lived in France for over a decade and now resides in Princeton, where she leads monthly writing workshops.
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Dan Vyleta, with whom, in the interest of full disclosure I have crossed paths at a couple of literary festivals, is a writer of significance and elegance. Dan is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to Germany in the late 1960s, although he now lives and teaches in the Great Lakes region of the US. His European background is a clear influence on this work, which takes place in Vienna, in the autumn of 1939 -- shortly after Austria's annexation by the Nazis. The book blurb will tell you what you need to know of the plot, but allow me to say this is a novel of intricate subtly and slight of hand -- things are not always as they seem. In the afterword, Vyleta says: "My primary… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
From the beauty of the writing, it's hard to believe this is Kuitenbrouwer's first novel. This is a fascinating tale, which intertwines the fable of a woman pursued by a feudal lord, with that of a modern woman dealing with the aftermath of sexual assault and the resultant pregnancy. The fable is based on a Flemish and French fairy tale collected by Charles Deulin and which Andrew Lang included in The Red Fairy Book. In it the lord forces the woman who is the object of his obsession to spin the cloth to be used for her wedding shift and his shroud from nettles. As she makes his shroud, however, the lord falls ill and does not recover until she stops spinning. When later he… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This is a fine collection of linked short stories. Christie worked in homeless shelter in the rough Eastside neighborhood of Vancouver BC. Clearly he was touched by the people he met there, for the empathy he feels for the people he writes about -- the addicted, the mentally ill, the forgotten and marginalized of society -- is palpable. What's equally impressive is that Christie writes about them without it feeling exploitative. He looks deeply into their lives, their thoughts and their hearts, but there's no sense of voyeurism, just as the is no moralizing. The sympathy he creates is entirely due to his talent at making us see his characters as humans no so unlike us,… Read more
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