... superb ... absolutely beautiful ...

- Susan G. Cole, NOW Toronto

... a finely carved, blood-stained shiv of a book, beautiful and brutal ...

- Stacey May Fowles, National Post

Imagine Courtney Love with the benefits of a graduate education, or Kathy Acker slightly gentled by CanLit prettiness and politesse.

- Laura Penny, Globe and Mail

Se alle

... an immaculate mix of humour, drama and beauty ... the book is a feral creature, full of intense love even when it bites.

- Emily M Keeler, FASHION

.... brilliant ... [Crosbie] will have even the most hard-boiled reader sobbing.

- Robert J. Wiersema, Edmonton Journal

... powerful ... Life is About Losing Everything [is] a book that is felt as much as it is read.

- Mark Paterson, Rover Arts

Should we try to separate fact from fiction? Can we? Provocative, entertaining and poignant, Life is About Losing Everything makes us sweat for the answers.

- Brett Joseph Grubisic, Vancouver Sun

... focused, lucid, and darkly comic ...

- Michael Hingston, Winnipeg Review

... raw and honest ... although [Crosbie's] experiences are unique, the themes are universal.

- Michelle Singerman, Post City Magazines

Life is About Losing Everything courageously recounts an ugly side of life.

- Heather Cromarty, Toronto Review of Books

From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are at once a cache, a repository, of a seven-year period in the author's life; and, too, a gymnasium, a place where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks Deft with matters both low- and highbrow (here are stories about 80s big-hair bands and the lasting, theological value of the Rocky series; here, too are stories contemplating critical theory and fine art), Life Is About Losing Everything speaks with manic yet grave authority about risking and losing everything, and then sorting through the remains to discover what is beautiful, what is trash, and what, ultimately, belongs.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781770890039
Publisert
2012-06-21
Utgiver
Vendor
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Vekt
439 gr
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Lynn Crosbie is a cultural critic, author, and poet. She teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Toronto.