Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Pictures
- Publisher
- Fifth House Books
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1999
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920079065
- Publish Date
- Jan 1999
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
Pictures is Lois Simmie's second short story collection. A longing for tranquillity and a compassion for human beings - the impatient little girl, the anxious secretary, the desolate alcoholic - suffuse these stories.
With the same warmth and humour of her immensely popular novel, They Shouldn't Make You Promise That, Lois Simmie shows us Pictures that will make us laugh and make us cry, make us glad to be alive.
About the author
Lois Simmie is a true veteran of the Canadian writing scene, a storyteller of the highest order who is known and acclaimed for both her children's literature and her adult work. She's the author of the Canadian classic novel They Shouldn't Make You Promise That reissued by Coteau in the fall of 2002. Her short-fiction collections include Betty Lee Bonner Lives Here and Pictures, and she wrote the non-fiction book The Secret Lives of John Wilson. Her books for children include What Holds Up the Moon? and Mr. Got-to-Go and Arnie. She lives in Saskatoon.
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Finding My Way
A Memoir
Mister Got to Go Where Are You?
A Kids' Field Guide to Fast Food Advertising
Mister Got to Go and Arnie
What I am Trying to Say is Good-bye
They Shouldn't Make You Promise That
Mister Got to Go
The Cat that Wouldn't Leave
Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson
A True Story of Love & Murder