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The next title in a new series of short nonfiction books modeled after 18th century political pamphlets-compare with Penguin's Great Idea series, but instead of reprints, these are original essays by contemporary writers and thinkers about contemporary issues. On Fatherhood expands the scope of the series: where the first three titles responded specifically to current events, this installment responds to the circumstances of Boyagoda's own li...

When Prin's wife, dismayed by his indiscretion with an old flame, takes their four daughters to stay with family in the States, Prin finds himself living alone in the Toronto condominium newly built on the site of the college where he used to teach. Bitter about his solitude and filled with regret, struggling to find purpose in his faith and redeem himself to his family, he takes a dubious-sounding job in Terre-Haute, Indiana, and joins a grou...

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A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 Eight months before he became a suicide bomber, Prin went to the zoo with his family. Following a cancer diagnosis, forty-year old Prin vows to become a better man and a better Catholic. He’s going to spend more time with his kids and better time with his wife, care for his recently divorced and aging parents, and also expand his cutting-edge research into the symbolism of the seahorse in Canadian literature....

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Seeks to understand connections between American and global experience as discernible in twentieth-century fiction. This book argues that the work of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner reveals a century-long transformation of how American identity and experience have been imagined.

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