Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Open
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2002
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Contemporary Women
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780887841798
- Publish Date
- Apr 2002
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780887848711
- Publish Date
- Apr 2002
- List Price
- $9.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887846847
- Publish Date
- Feb 2003
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
Lisa Moore's Open makes you believe three things unequivocally: that St. John's is the centre of the universe, that these stories are about absolutely everything, that the only certainty in life comes from the accumulation of moments which refuse to be contained. Love, mistakes, loss -- the fear of all of these, the joy of all of these. The interconnectedness of a bus ride in Nepal and a wedding on the shore of Quidi Vidi Lake; of the tension between a husband and wife when their infant cries before dawn (who will go to him?) and the husband's memory of an early, piercing love affair; of two friends, one who suffers early in life and the other midway through.
In Open Lisa Moore splices moments and images together so adroitly, so vividly, you'll swear you've lived them yourself. That there is a writer like Lisa Moore threading a live wire through everything she sees, showing it to us, warming us with it. These stories are a gathering in. An offering. They ache and bristle. They are shared riches. Open.
About the author
Lisa Moore is the acclaimed author of the novels Caught, February, and Alligator. Caught was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and is now a major CBC television series starring Allan Hawco. February won CBC’s Canada Reads competition, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Alligator was a finalist for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean region), and was a national bestseller. Her story collection Open was a finalist for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize and a national bestseller. Her most recent work is a collection of short stories called Something for Everyone. Lisa lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Awards
- Short-listed, Winterset Award for Excellence in Newfoundland Writing
- Short-listed, Scotiabank Giller Prize
User Reviews
Open by Lisa Moore
Rich and vivid short story collection about love and life. Gut wrenching, well written, and there's not a bad story to be found among the ten offered up.Open, by Lisa Moore
Rich imagery, heart-rending stories, and many beautiful moments. Our book club had mixed feelings, as always happens, but most loved the layering of descriptions.Other titles by
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