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Fiction Literary

Buying on Time

by (author) Antanas Sileika

Publisher
Porcupine's Quill
Initial publish date
Mar 1997
Category
Literary, General, Humorous
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889841864
    Publish Date
    Mar 1997
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

The anecdotes, extended scenes and burgeoning imagination that make up these stories are tightly composed and sharply focused. The book manages to be both harsh and sympathetic. It welds humour, tragedy and the personal embarrassments we all live through in a colourful and memorable way.

About the author

Antanas Sileika is a Canadian author of five previous books of fiction as well as a memoir. Working as a Canadian journalist of Lithuanian descent, he became involved with the movement to restore Lithuania’s independence from the Soviet Union. His collection of short stories, Buying on Time, was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and the Toronto Book Award and long-listed for CBC’s Canada Reads in 2016. His books have repeatedly received starred reviews from Quill & Quire and been listed as among the one hundred best books of the year in the Globe and Mail. He has reviewed books for print, radio, and television and he served as the director of the Humber School for Writers until retiring in 2017. He currently lives in Toronto, ON.

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Awards

  • Short-listed, City of Toronto Book Award
  • Short-listed, Stephen Leacock Award

Editorial Reviews

'... a significant contribution -- spare, lively prose rich in observed detail.'

Toronto Star

'The anecdotes, extended scenes and burgeoning imagination that make up these stories are tightly composed and sharply focused. The book manages to be both harsh and sympathetic. It welds humour, tragedy and the personal embarrassments we all live through in a colourful and memorable way.'

The Globe & Mail

'The stories are funny, discerning, sharply observed, and unobtrusively well written. Reading them is as easy as breathing.'

The Montreal Gazette

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