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Carole David's The Year of My Disappearance is a searing, surreal, darkly comic descent into a woman's psyche: as pitiless an assault on her own torments and pretences as it is on those figures lodged in her memory: lovers, strangers, her own mother, Bosch-like apparitions out of her dreams and imaginings. Through it all, a fierce combat is being waged between immolation and survival, wherein, as she has written, "I gave free range to the live...

The perfect book for any student taking a research methods course for the first time! The new edition of David and Sutton's text provides those new to social research with a comprehensive introduction to the theory, logic and practical methods of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. Covering all aspects of research design, data collection, data analysis and writing up, Social Research: An Introduction is the essential compani...

Montreal in the 1960's. A popular singer Connie Ferragamo, abandons her five-year-old daughter, Lousia, and turns herself into the police. Whom did she murder and why? Years later, from old news paper clippings, tales her aunt told her, and a chance encounter with her father, Louisa decides to piece together the secrets of her family. But Louisa wonders if she will ever be able to find out the truth about her past. The author's style, spare an...

Characters tightly clutch their existential problems to their chests and teeter through the unstable, modern world in this collection of short stories. The 12 seemingly disparate stories--such as a young girl suffering from anorexia, the life of a heroin addict, and a farmer obsessed with his female neighbor--are intimately linked through the unique language and societal outlook.

Poets speak the unspeakable. Carole David's poems exude the smell of life in the raw. She excavates the human landscape. She goes for the jugular. Softly. David's literary heroes include Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton, the Beat generation. Her early prose-poems are stark and questioning. They placed her outside the Quebec literary establishment. This translation finally makes her art accessible to a wider Anglo readership. The Place Where Your Soul ...